Ego and Soul: The Modern West in Search of Meaning

A sociologist argues that the West's crisis of meaning runs deeper than politics or culture—tracing how ordinary people, from the shopping mall to the sports stadium, are unconsciously reaching for the transcendent in a world that no longer offers them a shared language of belief

The crisis of meaning is the issue of our time. The old beliefs that guided the West have faded, without credible replacement. Who lives well? What characterizes the good life? More particularly, what may we in the ...