Crossroads:Jonathan Franzen's Moral Inquiry into Therapeutic Culture in the Postwar Era
Crossroads reaches back to the 1970s and shows the spiritual nihility in postwar America.Citing Charles Taylor's framework theory of modern identity may enable us to see that Jonathan Franzen traces the origin of this crisis to the shift in authority from transcendental guilt to therapeutic culture.Through the discrepancy in the characters'responses to guilt within different horizons,Franzen reveals the destruction of moral agency and communal life by therapeutic culture.Thus,Franzen examines the cultural roots of extreme individualism that is abusing America today in the context of ethical transmutation.
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