Essay

Steiner offers five "axioms to define Europe: the coffee house; the landscape on a traversable and human scale; these streets and squares named after statesmen, scientists, artists, writers of the past; our twofold descent from Athens and Jerusalem; and, lastly, that apprehension of a closing chapter, of that famous Hegelian sunset, which shadowed the idea and substance of Europe even in their noon hours.
This lecture and book was the starting point of the Nexus Conference series Europe. A Beautiful Idea? (2004).