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Eccentric Culture: A Theory of Western Civilization

by Brague, Rémi

1992

Summary

Brague's foundational work arguing that European culture is fundamentally "eccentric" — it has always received its cultural substance from outside itself (from Greece and Jerusalem via Rome). Rome is not the origin but the transmitter; European identity consists precisely in this capacity to receive, translate, and pass on what is not originally one's own. A radical rethinking of Western identity and its relationship to tradition.

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ISBN: 978-1587313868

Topics

school Philosophy history History auto_stories Tradition account_balance Political Philosophy psychology Rationalism balance Natural Law diversity_3 Social Order

Quotes from this book

• Europe Digests and Transmits
• Europe Is an Eccentric Culture
• Europe Includes What Is Not Originally Its Own
• Rome Transmits Rather Than Originates
• The Secondarity of European Culture