The Idea of Europe

出版者:The Overlook Press

作者:George Steiner

页数:48

出版时间:2015-3-10

价格:USD 20.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781468310245

图书标签:George_Steiner欧洲研究思想史哲学

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..

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..

作者认为Cafe houses、以名人命名的街道、及可以hiking的郊外风景等在塑造欧洲精神上起了至关重要的作用，这是很新鲜也是很透彻的观点。他觉得欧洲人不能沉迷于历史当中，却有反对美国化的单一哲学是人们忘却自己的微小独特性。他还批判基督教对欧洲精神的毒害，认为应该让理性之光重新主导欧洲。

作者认为Cafe houses、以名人命名的街道、及可以hiking的郊外风景等在塑造欧洲精神上起了至关重要的作用，这是很新鲜也是很透彻的观点。他觉得欧洲人不能沉迷于历史当中，却有反对美国化的单一哲学是人们忘却自己的微小独特性。他还批判基督教对欧洲精神的毒害，认为应该让理性之光重新主导欧洲。

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..