The Idea of Europe: An Essay

by George Steiner

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