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Written between 1983 and 1988, Confessions offers reflective, thought-provoking observations from a "man who knows that he is living during the end of an age." Like many immigrant intellectuals, Lukacs maintains a critical skepticism toward his adopted country and a distanced objectivity toward his homeland. As a result, his writings often illustrate the intersection--and frequent collision--of his humanistic European background with the American spirit of independence: "I could not believe that the future of Western civilization was California." Lukacs seamlessly weaves his complex thoughts into an entertaining, provocative narrative. For example, the chapter on "Dwelling" guides the reader from renovating a suburban home to the absurdity of urban sprawl, skepticism about the democratic process, involvement in local politics, the death of a loved one, and disillusion with a decaying social order. With reflections ranging from the individual ("All my life I have felt and recognized the presence of history within descriptive prose") to the universal ("One cannot be deeply bourgeois and deeply Christian at the same time"), Confessions of an Original Sinner challenges and delights at the same time, providing insight into the profound and frequently witty observations of one of our most perceptive thinkers. --Bertina Loeffler Sedlack
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