The Idea of Europe: An Essay

by George Steiner

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1468310240

ISBN13:9781468310245

Release Date:March 2015

Publisher:Harry N. Abrams

Length:48 Pages

Weight:2.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

History Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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