Dimensions
133 x 210 x 19mm
The Modern West in Search of Meaning
Is the modern West lost in a crisis of meaning, like a rudderless ship pitching and rolling on the swells of existence? Or are events like those surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, signs of something else? Could they be expressions of the contemporary drive to find a myth we can all believe in?
'Ego and Soul' is an engaging and lucid look at where Western society is heading as we approach the new millennium. Modern preoccupations such as work, sport, computers, cars and the celebrity cults of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley are sifted through classical themes.
Author and noted sociologist John Carroll casts his eye of the cultural landscape and finds evidence that we are in our ordinary, everyday lies, inhaling that deepening sacred breath.
