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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