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What tricks does the Catholic right have to resort to in order to define itself as the center of Europe

Eivind Tjønneland
Review written by Eivind Tjønneland
Eccentric culture – a theory of Western culture
Forfatter: Rémi Brague, oversatt av Hanne Herrman
Forlag: Solum Bokvennen, (Oslo)
CARDIGANS / European culture is "characterized by a melancholy feeling due to its alienation or inferiority to a source that evokes a nostalgic feeling". Really?




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Eivind Tjønneland
Eivind Tjønneland
Historian of ideas and author. Regular critic in MODERN TIMES. (Former professor of literature at the University of Bergen.)

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