{"product_id":"the-cube-and-the-cathedral-george-weigel-9780465092680","title":"The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God","description":"Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist \"cube\" of the Great Arch of La Defense in Paris with the civilization that produced the \"cathedral\" of Notre-Dame, George Weigel argues that Europe's embrace of a narrow secularism has led to a crisis of morale that is eroding Europe's soul and threatening its future -- with dire lessons for the rest of the democratic world. Weigel traces the origins of \"Europe's problem\" to the atheistic humanism of the nineteenth-century European intellectual life, which set in motion a historical process that produced two world wars, three totalitarian systems, the Gulag, Auschwitz, the Cold War -- and, most ominously, the Continent's de-population, which is worse today than during the Black Death. And yet, many Europeans still insist -- most recently, during the debate over a new EU constitution -- that only a public square shorn of religiously-informed moral argument is safe for human rights and democracy. Precisely the opposite, Weigel suggests, is true: the people of the \"cathedral\" can give a compelling account of their commitment to everyone's freedom; the people of the \"cube\" cannot. Can there be any true \"politics\" -- any true deliberation about the common good, and any robust defense of freedom -- without God? George Weigel makes a powerful case that the answer is \"No,\" because, in the final analysis, societies are only as great as their spiritual aspirations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Weigel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0465092683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780465092680\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d","brand":"George Weigel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987318472959,"sku":"9780465092680","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_350ff74d-3ffc-4be5-af59-f8f652fd9cff.jpg?v=1683288270","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cube-and-the-cathedral-george-weigel-9780465092680","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}