The Cube and the Cathedral - George Weigel
Europe, America, and Politics Without God
KORTE INHOUD
Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist “cube” of the Great Arch of La Défense in Paris with the civilization that produced the “cathedral” of Notre-Dame, George Weigel argues that Europe's embrace of a narrow secularism has led to a crisis of morale that is eroding Europe's soul and threatening its future—with dire lessons for the rest of the democratic world.Weigel traces the origins of “Europe's problem” to the atheistic humanism of the nineteenth-century European intellectual life, which set in motion a historical process that produced two world wars, three totalitarian systems, the Gulag, Auschwitz, the Cold War—and, most ominously, the Continent's de-population, which is worse today than during the Black Death.And yet, many Europeans still insist—most recently, during the debate over a new EU ...
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202 p. Hardcover with dustjacket (In good condition.) New York, Basic Books 2005 [Auteur: Weigel, George] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: The Cube and the Cathedral. Europe, America, and Politics Without God]
