Savate
22nd October 2006, 03:32 PM
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.
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.