Una certa idea di Europa
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Per George Steiner l’Europa è i suoi caffè, dove si conversa, si discute, si scrive; le sue vie e le sue piazze intitolate a poeti, artisti, scienziati; il suo paesaggio modellato da mani e piedi d’uomo: un «luogo di memorie» dove convivono l’eredità di Atene e quella di Gerusalemme. In questo saggio brillante e provocatorio l’intellettuale che meglio incarna lo spirito dell’umanesimo moderno mette a fuoco l’identità di un continente che della diversità culturale ha fatto il tratto distintivo. E si interroga su come proteggere questo patrimonio di bellezza e umanità dal risorgere di antiche minacce – l’odio etnico, lo sciovinismo nazionalista, i regionalismi sfrenati – e da un nuovo incombente pericolo: l’omologazione culturale frutto della globalizzazione.
- ISBN: 8811811694
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 96
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Europe is way better than America. Did you know? Partly, this is because Europe has street names like Rue Lafontaine, Place Victor Hugo, and Goetheplatz, while America has street names like Maple, Pine, and Sunset.
First I blame myself – I had only a few minutes at City Lights on my lunch hour, and picked this book off the shelf after I'd grabbed Colm Tóibín's On Elizabeth Bishop . Old enthusiasms die hard. Ever since reading Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature & the Inhuman in college, I've had Leggi tutto
The Goodreads description calls this a "remarkable short book," but maybe it should say "remarkably short." As other reviewers have pointed out, Steiner has said much the same elsewhere, and less invidiously at that, so my criticisms of In Bluebeard's Castle go for The Idea of Europe as well. St
Fascinating short (very short) book. Steiner has written about this subject elsewhere with more detail, but here he sets his views straight on why Europe is an idea worth saving. The underlying question is what makes us Europeans, and as other reviewers point out, he craftily presents 5 “European” c Leggi tutto
Muy interesante llamado a la consciencia de lo que significa cultural y socialmente Europa, ese aglomeramiento de países, culturas, lenguajes cuyo origen puede definirse en dos ciudades, Atenas y Jerusalem. Europa, donde surgieron las Grandes Ideas y el Gran Arte y que corre el riesgo de perderse an Leggi tutto
Eh? I liked the part where he talked about cafés but that was also kinda weird. Steiner managed to make something as good as unity between European states and people to become somewhat nationalist and give the vibes that Europe is the best place on earth and the rest of the world is pure shit wtf ma Leggi tutto
Interesting essay where Steiner outlines five distinctive characteristics of Europe and, briefly at the end, presents a high-level vision of what Europe’s role in today’s world could be (simultaneously constructive/ visionary and - at least for the pessimistic in me - tragically oneiric)
Curtet. Gràcies.
Me quedo con la idea que Europa es un café que se puede recorrer a pie.
Otro libro brillante de Steiner. El más erudito de los sabios, el más sabio de los eruditos, el más cosmopolita de los humanistas europeos, George Steiner. En esta ocasión la reflexión gira entorno a la idea de Europa, un tema que sólo pensadores enciclopédicos como Walter Benjamin, Karl Kraus, Edmu Leggi tutto
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