With a clash of civilizations underway, it is urgent to clarify that America and Europe share a cultural bond and that they must rally, unite, and defend themselves as one civilization.
We now have an indispensable guide to show why this is true: Parisian history and philosophy professor Philippe Nemo’s What is the West?
- SUNY-Buffalo Professor Barry Smith calls this book “a beautiful account of the role of science, law, and liberal democracy in the creation of the modern world, and an intriguing account of the role of Christianity in the process.”
- Religion scholar Michael Novak commends Nemo for defining “the great contributory streams of the distinctive mind and heart of the West: not only the famous “Athens and Jerusalem” of so many writers, but also ancient Rome and the papal revolution of European Rome…, together with the later centers of liberal politics and liberal economics, and then the universal sweep of Western ideas.”
- Leslie G. Rubin of Duquesne University says the book ably defends against “deconstructionism and [Western culture’s] more obviously political detractors.”
Nemo goes beyond capturing the extraordinary or what he calls nigh “miraculous” quality of each “evolutionary leap forward” in the West. In his final chapter, he boldly defies the West’s multicultural elites who would erase from memory our common, Western identity; thus he urges the creation of a league of nations, or federation, united by the fundamental ideas and traditions of the West.
This little book is a superb guide to who we are and how we might endure.