We praise democracy most of the time, but we practice it as if we had accepted every argument against it, as if we believed it must depress the level of culture and of public life
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Jorge SemprunJorge Semprun was born in Spain and educated in exile in France, where he joined the Communist Party and became a member of the resistance movement. The terrible experience of deportation to Buchenwald made him determined to fight totalitarianism and defend peace and humanism. He was Spanish Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1991. Recent articlesWhat being 'European' means to me From exile and incarceration to government and academy, Jorge Semprun both fully lived the disasters that fell upon Europe in the mid-20th century, and never stopped reflecting upon their meaning and lessons. His recent talk at the Institut Français in London was part of their compelling lecture series, “Europe, my Europe”. In it, Semprun offers us the essence of Europe via a journey through three haunting moments of its modern history. |
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