The Idea of Europe: An Essay, by George Steiner
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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. The Idea of Europe: An Essay, by George Steiner- Amazon Sales Rank: #923266 in Books
- Brand: Steiner, George/ Riemen, Rob (INT)
- Published on: 2015-03-10
- Released on: 2015-03-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .47" w x 5.20" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 48 pages
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8 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Not much of an examination By Sceptique500 Having “examined life” (to make it worth living) and in particular the idea of Europe, the author proposes at the end: “With the collapse of Marxism into barbaric tyranny and economic nullity, a great dream, that, as Trotsky proclaimed, of ordinary man following in the wake of Aristotle and Goethe, went lost. Free of a bankrupt ideology it can, it must be dreamt again. It is only in Europe, perhaps, the requisite foundations of literacy, that the sense of the tragic vulnerability of the condition humaine, could provide a basis.” In short, he wants a reply of Marxism. Thank you, if the XXth century has taught us anything, is that only what is “realexistierend” counts. No idea, ideology, religion, should be allowed to get away scot-free, blaming its nefarious effects on poor implementation.Unsurprisingly, the author traces (genealogically) the idea of Europe back to Athens and Jerusalem. For the Romans, he only has a sneer (Heidegger blamed them for the poor translation of “being”). We owe our political institutions to Rome as well as the idea of Commonwealth of Nations on which the modern idea of Europe is built (the Greeks never got past bickering with each other). Epicurus proposed a secular humanism that shaped modern Europe as much as Athens. He also fails to note Christianity’s unique contribution – the notion of eschatological time (Agamben, but also Peter Brown) – which turned living in the world into a boot camp for real life beyond the grave (till then, living was for the here and now – even for the Greeks, who knew no afterlife but for the elites chattering away in the Elysian Fields about their heroic past).Of the four axioms the author lists as defining Europe, three (cafés, walking, the presence of history in daily life) are discussed as the antithesis to the American way of life. In fact, the lecture is diffused with what I would call an anti-americanisme primaire. Life on earth would be in ideal order - were it not for the Anglo-Saxons in general and the base materialism of the USA (for all its faults, the model is lifting much of the world out of abject poverty). He also fails to note Darwin’s fundamental shift in worldview from the individual to the population – and to consequentialism as well as incrementalism. Darwinism was the great slayer of revolutionary idealism as well as "scientific" positivism). Experience (and science) now side with Darwinism, verifying its truth empirically.The “rest of the world” to the author does not exist intellectually, or is stuck in the “Oriental mode of production” (no wonder the author ignores the colonial experience, a minor blemish on the inheritance of Athens and Jerusalem). In so doing, he ignores the ability of Sinic civilizations to deal with silent transformations.The author pines away for the old certainties of “Europe [before it] committed suicide by killing its Jews.” The Jewish experience in Europe is suffused with exclusivism at the detriment of the self-confident multi-culturalism of the First Diaspora. In so doing, the "foremost intellectual of our age" reveals an epigonic, not an examining attitude.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Five Stars By Christina Cerna I especially liked the notion of Europe as a place where you walk
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