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PublisherAbrams, Inc.
ISBN-101468310240
ISBN-139781468310245
eBay Product ID (ePID)201622346
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Book TitleIdea of Europe : an Essay
Number of Pages48 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEuropean / General, World / European, Essays
Publication Year2015
GenrePolitical Science, Literary Collections
AuthorGeorge Steiner
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight7.1 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-429979
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"What lies ahead for Europe after Christianity's loss of cultural dominance is one of the great cultural questions of the century. The celebrated literary critic Steiner addressed this mystery in a widely admired 2003 lecture, now reissued with a long foreword, as a slim hardbound book...this classic essay and its unsparing critique deserve attention." -- Publishers Weekly " George Steiner's Idea of Europe challenges us. It is a monument of culture and a challenging and erudite meditation on the idea of Europe and what makes it distinctive....It should probably be compulsory reading for all students in Europe and in the U.S. The Overlook Press, in New York, should be thanked for the initiative of publishing under this title, the Tenth Nexus Lecture of the Intellectual Summit, delivered in 2003, and already a classic....[Steiner] deals with huge topics in a way that makes them simpler than you would think, more important than you had thought, and as poetic as you would wish." -- European Institute, "What lies ahead for Europe after Christianity's loss of cultural dominance is one of the great cultural questions of the century. The celebrated literary critic Steiner addressed this mystery in a widely admired 2003 lecture, now reissued with a long foreword, as a slim hardbound book...this classic essay and its unsparing critique deserve attention." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal940.5
SynopsisThe Idea of Europe finds George Steiner reckoning with Europe from a number of different angles. "Europe," he writes, "is the place where Goethe'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." It is, in other words, a continent rich with contradiction, whose many tensions--cultural, social, political, economic, and religious--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 Steiner's words, "young Englishmen choose to rank David Beckham high above Shakespeare and Darwin in their list of national treasures"? This is the trajectory that Steiner explores so brilliantly in The Idea of Europe., 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.
LC Classification NumberCB205.S74 2015
