{"product_id":"sex-and-the-unreal-city-the-demolition-of-the-western-mind-9781621643067","title":"Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnreal City: a zany cartoon megalopolis where towers are built of cotton candy, facts scatter like pixie dust, and the truth is whatever you feel it to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it's no fantasy. It's where we live. We dwell in Unreal City. We believe in \u003ci\u003eun-being\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut fear not. \u003ci\u003eSex and the Unreal City\u003c\/i\u003e 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 somehow long forgotten--Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, the evangelists--and asks us to chant along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders of essayists like George Weigel, George Rutler, Malcom Muggeridge, and Walker Percy will enjoy this rollicking, intelligent book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Esolen\u003c\/b\u003e translated the Modern Library edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as the Johns Hopkins edition of Torquato Tasso's \u003ci\u003eJerusalem Delivered\u003c\/i\u003e. An award-winning contributor to numerous periodicals, he has authored fourteen books of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eDefending Boyhood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Out of the Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Hundredfold\u003c\/i\u003e. He has taught at universities since 1987 and currently serves as professor of literature and writer in residence at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts in New Hampshire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ignatius Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50441367093522,"sku":"9781621643067","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b23f7bb4-91f5-4489-aad3-0ea54ce7353a.jpg?v=1729665207","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sex-and-the-unreal-city-the-demolition-of-the-western-mind-9781621643067","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}