The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God
Autor George Weigelen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 feb 2006
Why
do
Europeans
and
Americans
see
the
world
so
differently?
Why
do
Europeans
and
Americans
have
such
different
understandings
of
democracy
in
the
twenty-first
century?
Why
is
Europe
dying,
demographically?
InThe
Cube
and
the
Cathedral,
George
Weigel
offers
a
penetrating
critique
of
"Europe's
problem"
and
draws
out
its
lessons
for
the
rest
of
the
democratic
world.
Contrasting
the
civilization
that
produced
the
starkly
modernist
"cube"
of
the
Great
Arch
of
La
Defense
in
Paris
with
the
civilization
that
produced
the
"cathedral,"
Notre-Dame,
Weigel
argues
that
Europe's
embrace
of
a
narrow
and
cramped
secularism
has
led
to
a
crisis
of
civilizational
morale
that
is
eroding
Europe's
soul
and
failing
to
create
the
European
future.
Even
as
thoughtful
Europeans
and
Americans
wrestle
with
these
grave
issues,
many
European
political
leaders
continue
to
insist-most
recently,
during
the
debate
over
a
new
European
constitution-that
only
a
public
square
shorn
of
religiously
informed
moral
argument
is
safe
for
human
rights
and
democracy.
The
most
profound
question
raised
byThe
Cube
and
the
Cathedralis
whether
there
can
be
any
true
"politics"-any
true
deliberation
about
the
common
good,
and
any
robust
defense
of
freedom-without
God.
George
Weigel
makes
a
powerful
case
that
the
answer
is
"No"-because,
in
the
final
analysis,
societies
and
cultures
can
only
be
as
great
as
their
spiritual
aspirations.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465092680
ISBN-10: 0465092683
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 130 x 206 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 0465092683
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 130 x 206 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
Notă biografică
George
Weigel,
a
Roman
Catholic
theologian
and
one
of
America's
leading
commentators
on
religion
and
public
life,
is
the
author
of
the
acclaimedThe
Courage
to
Be
Catholic,
the
international
bestseller,Witness
to
Hope:
The
Biography
of
John
Paul
II,
and
numerous
other
books
that
includeThe
Truth
of
CatholicismandThe
Final
Revolution.
Now
a
Senior
Fellow
of
the
Ethics
and
Public
Policy
Center
in
Washington,
D.C.,
where
he
holds
the
John
M.
Olin
Chair
in
Religion
and
American
Democracy,
Weigel
writes
a
weekly
column,
"The
Catholic
Difference,"
that
is
syndicated
to
more
than
forty
newspapers
around
the
United
States.
He
is
an
NBC
consultant
on
the
Vatican
and
appears
regularly
on
network
and
cable
television
programs
as
well
as
national
and
local
radio.
Weigel
lives
with
his
wife
and
their
three
children
in
North
Bethesda,
Maryland.