Exploring Love and Human Agency in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

The chapter delves into examining interpersonal relations and love through a significant episode in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, challenging Cartesian models of being in the world. It reflects on themes of unfulfilled desires, spiritual destitution, and failed love in a metropolitan setting while drawing parallels with philosophical concepts from Descartes, Aquinas, and Pope John Paul II. The discussion emphasizes the responsibility individuals hold for their actions and the impact of modern philosophical trends on the perception of the human person.