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Letters To My Grandchildren (Hardcover)
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Letters To My Grandchildren (Hardcover)
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Distinguished Austrian sociologist Reinhold Knoll's letters to his
grandchildren, written daily during the Covid-19 pandemic, evolved
into an obituary of European culture, politics, and society. They
also embody a gesture of thanks to the United States, which took a
different path from Europe and then saved it in World War I and
World War II. Like Beethoven's piano sonatas, some of Professor
Knoll's letters are light and humorous while others plumb the
depths of the human psyche. But each brings the past into the
present, often enhanced by Viennese ironic wit, with recondite and
penetrating observations on enlightenment and revolution, art and
music, social thought, the devolution of the museum, the status of
the church, migration, fashions in pedagogy, and the role of
technology in society. This is the remarkable work of a balanced
conscience in troubled times. America owes most of its cultural and
spiritual traditions to the erstwhile European stewardship of a
legacy that goes back to Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome - the subject,
verb, and predicate of our human story, - though Europe now finds
itself in a crisis of confidence with profound warnings for the
American reader.
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