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Truth used to be based on reason. No more. What we feel is now the truest source of reality. Despite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face anxiety, despair, and purposelessness. How did we get here? And where do we find a remedy? In this modern classic, Francis A. Schaeffer traces trends in twentieth-century thought and unpacks how key ideas have shaped our society. Wide-ranging in his analysis, Schaeffer examines philosophy, science, art and popular culture to identify dualism, fragmentation and the decline of reason. Schaeffer's work takes on a newfound relevance today in his prescient anticipation of the contemporary postmodern ethos. His critique demonstrates Christianity's promise for a new century, one in as much need as ever of purpose and hope.

This book-length poem by one of the major poets of our era is structured as a series of messages transmitted by a master spy to the director of spy operations and to a number of his fellow spies. The spy speaks of his own alienation and sense of purposelessness as a secret agent―a metaphor for a human existence committed to ordering, deciphering, and making sense of a world of random signs. First published in 1974, the book is now reprinted with a substantial introduction by the author that elaborates on the genesis of the poem, the literary figures who inspired some of the characters, the poem’s reception, and other matters.Reviews of the earlier edition:“These poems can be read and admired for their fluidity, their wonderful diversity of significance. . . . Many delights.”―Richard Poirier, Los Angeles Times“Hollander’s arch and subtle long poem allegorizes the mirror closeness between raveller and unraveller.”―George Steiner, New Yorker“Hollander explores with wit and virtuosity the pleasures of poetry (encipherment) and the trials of the workaday world (one’s ‘cover.’) . . . A rich, intelligent poem . . . a special pleasure for those with an ear for allusions, parodies, and puns.”―Library Journal

This book, inspired by the Book of Ecclesiastes, discusses how to overcome boredom, purposelessness, and the sense of futility in order to give life meaning and time purpose

Tracing trends in 20th-century thought, Francis A. Schaeffer shows that Christianity offers meaning where there is purposelessness and hope where there is despair.