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Civilization & Culture

The Idea of Europe: An Essay

The Idea of Europe: An Essay

In this remarkable short book, the foremost intellectual of our age brings a lifetime of erudition to bear on a subject that he has grappled with for decades, and whose future is profoundly uncertain.
The Idea of Europe finds George Steiner reckoning with Europe from a number of different angles. â‚¬Å“Europe,â‚¬Â he writes, â‚¬Å“is the place where Goetheâ‚¬s garden almost borders on Buchenwald, where the house of Corneille abuts on the market-place in which Joan of Arc was hideously done to death.â‚¬Â It is, in other words, a continent rich with contradiction, whose many tensionsâ‚¬â€¢cultural, social, political, economic, and religiousâ‚¬â€¢have for centuries conspired to pull it apart, even as it has become more and more unified.Â

But what lies ahead for a continent whose borders are growing and economic might is strengthening, even as its cultural identity recedes? A continent where, in Steinerâ‚¬s words, â‚¬Å“young Englishmen choose to rank David Beckham high above Shakespeare and Darwin in their list of national treasuresâ‚¬Â? This is the trajectory that Steiner explores so brilliantly in The Idea of Europe.
Country USA
Brand Abrams Press
Manufacturer Abrams Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2015-03-10
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781468310245

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