by George Steiner · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478445417
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«Nostalgia del absoluto» is a philosophical essay by George Steiner, published by Siruela in paperback (136 pages, in Spanish).
The essay originates from five radio lectures from 1974. Steiner reflects on the void left in the West by the decline of religions and examines substitutes for faith: Marx, Freud, Lévi-Strauss, astrology and Eastern cults; all of them, in his view, failed responses to the modern crisis of meaning.
Volume 12 of the Biblioteca de Ensayo collection, minor series, from Siruela. Translated from English by María Tabuyo and Agustín López.
For readers of philosophy and essays interested in the role of ideologies as substitutes for religion in Western culture.
Francis George Steiner, FBA was a French and American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust. A 2001 article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath".
