Great book "Without Roots"

[Savate]

I highly recommend this book...one of the best reads of the last couple of years.


Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Pera and Ratzinger

Notes from Booklist:
Pera, a philosopher of science who has become president of the Italian senate, dissects political correctness and the condition of which it is a symptom, cultural relativism.

Ratzinger, who a year later became Pope Benedict XVI, summarizes Europe's Christian heritage with breathtaking concision and historical mastery.
Both men see Europe today in a crisis of identity that has made it largely unable and unwilling to defend its culture against intransigent Islam, and both call for revivifying Christian identity.

Mostly what I like about the book is its historical contextualizing of postmodernism and relativism. It was refreshing to read learned men speaking candidly.

 

[Voegelin]

Thanks. Ordered it this morning. Bought America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It by Mark Steyn a few weeks ago and couldn't read more than three chapters it was so horribly depressing. Steyn's analysis is correct but he offers no solution what-so-ever. Got hammered by Steyn fans at Amazon for only giving it three stars (it deserved less as Steyn's usually witty prose falls flat in "America Alone").

Without Roots looks like the perfect restorative. Max Weber, a pan European Christian civic religion, political correctness as a "new pseudo-enlightenment"...great stuff.