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The Good European: Arguments, Excursions and Disquisitions on the Theme of Europe
Iain Bamforth
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paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JF. Weight in Grams: 381.
Nietzsche, warning his countrymen in the Bismarck era against the nationalism that sought to promote all that was anti-rational in the German tradition, exhorted them to be "good Europeans", avatars of the enlightened economic man of the eighteenth-century. Yet as RG Collingwood observed in his last great inquiry into the nature of civilisation, a book written to the glory of Hobbes at the height of the London blitz, Nietzsche was himself a victim of the disease he diagnosed. In "The Good European" Iain Bamforth reports on fifteen years of "experimental living" during which his attachment to the old continent brought ... Read more
Nietzsche, warning his countrymen in the Bismarck era against the nationalism that sought to promote all that was anti-rational in the German tradition, exhorted them to be "good Europeans", avatars of the enlightened economic man of the eighteenth-century. Yet as RG Collingwood observed in his last great inquiry into the nature of civilisation, a book written to the glory of Hobbes at the height of the London blitz, Nietzsche was himself a victim of the disease he diagnosed. In "The Good European" Iain Bamforth reports on fifteen years of "experimental living" during which his attachment to the old continent brought ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Language
English
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857547658
SKU
V9781857547658
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99-26
About Iain Bamforth
IAIN BAMFORTH has been living in Strasburg with his wife and two children since 1995. In addition to his previous books of poetry with Carcanet, Sons and Pioneers and Open Workings, Verso publish his literary history of medicine The Body in the Library, to be joined in 2005 by a book of essays on medicine and modernity. In his career, ... Read more
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