Staying Alive in the Ruins
Richard J. Evans: Plato to Nato, 22 April 2021
Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after World War Two
by Paul Betts.
Profile, 536 pp., £25, November 2020,978 1 78816 109 1 Show More
by Paul Betts.
Profile, 536 pp., £25, November 2020,
“... civilisation was in crisis, fanned ten years later by Khomeini’s incitement to Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie after the publication of The Satanic Verses. When the end of the Cold War determined that Russia could no longer serve as the antithesis of civilisation in the eyes of Christian conservatives, Islam provided a handy substitute. ‘Global ... ”