In the series of radio lectures that George Steiner gave on a radio station in Canada, in 1974, and published with the title Nostalgia for the Absolute, he tried to understand the attraction that Marxism, psychoanalysis and structuralist anthropology had on people, for the purpose they nourished in to fill the void created by the decadence of religion1. These systems of thought had in common the proposal of a meaning for man and history, similar to the religious worldview they sought to replace.
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