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    Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind
    Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind
    Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind
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    Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind

    By Anthony Esolen

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    Unreal City: a cartoon megalopolis where towers are built of cotton candy, facts scatter like pixie dust, and the truth is whatever you feel it to be.

    And it's no fantasy. It's where we live. "We dwell in Unreal City. We believe in un-being." 

    With saber-like wit, poet and professor Anthony Esolen leads readers on a tour through the ruins of their own Western world—through king-size bookstores, manicured college campuses, strobe-lit choir lofts, mechanized farms, divorce courts, drag-queen libraries, and beyond. This hilarious guide to a culture gone mad with sex and self-care minces no words and spares no egos. We the people of Unreal City are no better, and certainly no smarter, than our fathers.  

    But fear not. Sex and the Unreal City insists there's no need to settle down in the ninth circle of unreality. Esolen lights a torch and heads up the well-trod path back to our cleaner, kinder, truer homeland: Earth. Along the way, the author sings the songs of masters long forgotten—Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, the Evangelists—and asks us to join in.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIgnatius Press
    Release dateJul 20, 2020
    ISBN9781642291292
    Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind
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    Anthony Esolen

    Anthony Esolen, Professor of English at Providence College, is the editor and translator of the Modern Library edition of Dante's Divine Comedy. He has published scholarly articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, Dante, and Tasso in various journals and is a senior editor and frequent contributor to Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity.

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