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. “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.
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This book was written for a lecture, not as a academic work in the dogmatic style; the subtitle best justifies the writing style and divergent thinking. The author seeks to define the idea of Europe by its presence in an European's everyday life, its dichotomous origins of Athens and Jerusalem and the commonplace pessimism of decline and fall. It..
评分This book was written for a lecture, not as a academic work in the dogmatic style; the subtitle best justifies the writing style and divergent thinking. The author seeks to define the idea of Europe by its presence in an European's everyday life, its dichotomous origins of Athens and Jerusalem and the commonplace pessimism of decline and fall. It..
评分This book was written for a lecture, not as a academic work in the dogmatic style; the subtitle best justifies the writing style and divergent thinking. The author seeks to define the idea of Europe by its presence in an European's everyday life, its dichotomous origins of Athens and Jerusalem and the commonplace pessimism of decline and fall. It..
评分作者認為Cafe houses、以名人命名的街道、及可以hiking的郊外風景等在塑造歐洲精神上起瞭至關重要的作用，這是很新鮮也是很透徹的觀點。他覺得歐洲人不能沉迷於曆史當中，卻有反對美國化的單一哲學是人們忘卻自己的微小獨特性。他還批判基督教對歐洲精神的毒害，認為應該讓理性之光重新主導歐洲。
评分作者認為Cafe houses、以名人命名的街道、及可以hiking的郊外風景等在塑造歐洲精神上起瞭至關重要的作用，這是很新鮮也是很透徹的觀點。他覺得歐洲人不能沉迷於曆史當中，卻有反對美國化的單一哲學是人們忘卻自己的微小獨特性。他還批判基督教對歐洲精神的毒害，認為應該讓理性之光重新主導歐洲。
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