ISBN:
9783631619742
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (740 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Ideas of | for Europe : An Interdisciplinary Approach to European Identity
DDC:
305.697822
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The current attempt in European politics to develop a European identity makes scientific research about discourses on Europe especially relevant. This book takes an analytical gaze at philosophical and political attempts to conceptualise Europe from antiquity to the present and contributes to the understanding of how they are intertwined with the historical contexts in which they have been forged. The volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to the topic of ideas of and for Europe - historical concepts of Europe, Europe as seen from its peripheries and from outside, current concepts of Euro
Description / Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS; Speech of Acceptance of Honorary Degree from Chemnitz University of Technology; Global Challenges and European Identity. José Manuel Barroso; Foreword. Viriato Soromenho-Marques; Introduction. Teresa Pinheiro, Beata Cieszynska and José Eduardo Franco; Part I: Ideas of Europe - A Historical Approach; Europe - Europa: Between Myth and Continental Allegory: On the Gendering of a Complex Relationship, from Herodotus to Georg Kaiser. Almut-Barbara Renger; Ideas of Europe in Strabo's Geography. Paula Carreira and Susana Alves-Jesus
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Europe and the Other: Roots of European Identity in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Andreas HartmannMedieval Europe - Object and Ideology. Klaus Oschema; On the Problem of Forming a European Spirit - Montesquieu's "De l'Esprit de lois" (1748). Joshua Bandoch; Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Europe: Wieland's Idea of Europe before, during and after the French Revolution. Dominic Eggel; Hubs of Modernism - Paris, Berlin and Zürich 1880-1916. Cecilia Hansson; A Peace Made of War. Christian Blasberg; SOS Europa: Cultural Pessimism in the German Discourse on Europe during the Interwar Years. Verena Gutsche
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Visions of Europe and Revolution in the Intersecting Activist and Resistance Trajectories of Harro Schulze-Boysen and Alexandre Marc. Christian Roy"Old Europe"- Career, Troubles and Potentials of a Concept. Hiram Kümper; "(Re)joining the Community of Letters?" - The Circulation of Uncensored Literature in/of Cold War Europe. Friederike Kind-Kovács; One World, Two Philosophical Traditions: Maritain's andKojeve's Visions of World Unification and European IntegrationJames Fetter; Part II: Ideas of Europe from its Peripheries
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The Vision of Europe in Polish Literature against a Background of Other Slavic Literatures. Halina Janaszek-IvanickováMarcin Bielski's "Kronika wszytkiego swiata - The Chronicles of the Whole World" as a Great Vision of the Old Continent. Ewa Cybulska-Bohuszewicz and Pawel Bohuszewicz; Being the Face of Europe or Bringing Up the Rear - Ideas of Europe in Portugal, 16th to 18th Century. José Eduardo Franco and Teresa Pinheiro; The New Face of Europe: Literary Images of a Post-Colonial Continent- A Portuguese Portrait. Micaela Ramon; Germany, Spain and Europe. Walther L. Bernecker
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Province on a Hill: South Tyrol as a Microcosm of European Federalism. Phillip M. AldayIdeas of Europe and European Union in Turkey. Eduard Alan Bulut; Europe as the Other in Contemporary Balkan Literatures. Anastasija Gjurcinova; Views on the Quisling and In-Exile "New Europe": The Greek Case, 1941-44. Alexandra Patrikiou; Ideas of Europe between Sebastianism and Sarmatism: A Comparative Perspective. Beata Elzbieta Cieszynska; Ideas of Western Europe in Political Discussions of the Late RussianEmpire (1905-1917)Benjamin Beuerle; Part III: European Identity
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The European Identity - A Generative Concept. Andrei Marga
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