About the Author:
George Steiner is an essayist, writer, critic, and cultural philosopher. After fleeing the increasing anti-Semitic violence in Europe, he spent a large part of his youth in the United States. He studied at Harvard and Oxford. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, and he is the author of many books, including In Bluebeard’s Castle, Language and Silence, After Babel, and The Poetry of Thought.
Review:
"What lies ahead for Europe after Christianity's loss of cultural dominance is one of the great cultural questions of the century. The celebrated literary critic Steiner addressed this mystery in a widely admired 2003 lecture, now reissued with a long foreword, as a slim hardbound book...this classic essay and its unsparing critique deserve attention." —Publishers Weekly
"George Steiner’s Idea of Europe challenges us. It is a monument of culture and a challenging and erudite meditation on the idea of Europe and what makes it distinctive....It should probably be compulsory reading for all students in Europe and in the U.S. The Overlook Press, in New York, should be thanked for the initiative of publishing under this title, the Tenth Nexus Lecture of the Intellectual Summit, delivered in 2003, and already a classic....[Steiner] deals with huge topics in a way that makes them simpler than you would think, more important than you had thought, and as poetic as you would wish." —European Institute
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