Europe As A Way Of Life Analysis

The article entitled “Europe as a Way of Life” is the last chapter in highly acclaimed book named “Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945” written by Tony Judt, a British historian and university professor specialized in European history particular in modern French history. He was a Marxist with Jewish background. He also was the author who wrote over fifteen books and was a frequent contributor to the several journal including the New York Review of Books many other journals in Europe.
The article describes a way of life of Europe and social events in general making it easy to understand by content itself along with a writer’s writing style help attract various kinds of audiences especially people who are interested to understand present
In the 21st century, the Europeans change perspective. They pay attention to the future of European Union and the separate European nation-states. As he mentioned in the paragraph “Distinctive nations and states had not vanished…” then how they will cope with European identity and national identity? What way of European Union will be? Do they have the future? These series of questions are related to the lesson in the class that we are finding the answer. What is Europe?
After forty years period of tension and conflict was one of the factor which push strong ties and cooperation within Europe, becoming European Union. However, European Union nowadays did not live in the shadow of the Wars. The Europeans are seeking for the new way of life which disclaims the old political extremes; Left-wing politics and Right-wings politics or the extremes of American Capitalism or Soviet Socialism. The Europeans could be looking for the European Social Model for
He begins the article explaining European identity usually appear on culture and the way of life such as arts, journalism, television shows, and sport. However, there still have character of National identity behind those European identity. He present in the way of arranging contrasting paragraph by paragraph or in the same paragraph. He also mention in the article using the word “a curious paradox”.
From culture to politics, he stated that the political of Europe in the previous two decades somehow were combined. There has not much difference in political mainstream. The public intellectual in this continent seems to disappear even so not all of them but the stage that European intellectuals could gain authority within the public opinion is in foreign affairs. Then he launches into the European-American relations in present in the term of anti-American monologue. From against in American foreign policy on Iraq invasion to disagreement about “values” truly drive the two continent apart.
Europe enters into the European era of prosperity, security and