The Idea of Europe

A Critical History
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-47810-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

There is an increasingly widespread sense that Europe is in crisis. Notions of a shared European identity and a common European culture appear to be losing their purchase. This crisis is often seen as a conflict between a cosmopolitan and a nationalist idea of Europe. The reality is, however, considerably more complex, as the long history of the idea of Europe reveals. In The Idea of Europe: A Critical History, Shane Weller explores that history from its origins in classical antiquity to the present day. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he demonstrates that, all too often, seemingly progressive ideas of Europe have been shaped by Eurocentric, culturally supremacist, and even racist assumptions. Seeking to break with this troubling pattern, Weller calls for an idea of Europe shaped by a spirit of self-critique and by an openness to those cultures that have for so long been dismissed as non-European.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weller, Shane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Myths of Europa: from Classical Antiquity to the Enlightenment; 2. A Great Republic of Cultivated Minds: 1712–1815; 3. Nationalism and Universalism: 1815–1848; 4. The Russia Question; 5. Homo Europaeus:1848–1918; 6. The European Spirit: 1918–1933; 7. A New European Order: 1933–1945; 8. Unity in Diversity: 1945–1989; 9. Other Europes; 10. Europe Against Itself: 1989 to the Present Day.

Über Autor(innen)

Weller, Shane
Shane Weller is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. His publications include Modernism and Nihilism (2011) and Language and Negativity in European Modernism: Toward a Literature of the Unword (2019).