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The Idea of Europe

By (author) George Steiner, Introduction by Rob Riemen

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The Idea of Europe finds George Steiner reckoning with Europe from a number of different angles. â€œEurope,â€ he writes, â€œis 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€ It is, in other words, a continent rich with contradiction, whose many tensionsâ€”cultural, social, political, economic, and religiousâ€”have for centuries conspired to pull it apart, even as it has become more and more unified. 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€œyoung Englishmen choose to rank David Beckham high above Shakespeare and Darwin in their list of national treasuresâ€? This is the trajectory that Steiner explores so brilliantly in The Idea of Europe.

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