Anti-liberal Europe
Subtitle: a neglected story of Europeanization
By: edited by Dieter Gosewinkel
Series: New German historical perspectives -- volume 5
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781782384250; 9781782384267
Subjects: Liberalism; History; Political culture; Nationalism; European federation; European National characteristics; Civilization
Description: The history of modern Europe is often presented with the hindsight of present-day European integration, which was a genuinely liberal project based on political and economic freedom. Many other visions for Europe developed in the 20th century, however, were based on an idea of community rooted in pre-modern religious ideas, cultural or ethnic homogeneity, or even in coercion and violence. They frequently rejected the idea of modernity or reinterpreted it in an antiliberal manner. Anti-liberal Europe examines these visions, including those of anti-modernist Catholics, conservatives, extreme rightists as well as communists, arguing that antiliberal concepts in 20th-century Europe were not the counterpart to, but instead part of the process of European integration.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Anti-liberal Europe : a neglected source of Europeanism / Dieter Gosewinkel; title: The elusiveness of European (anti-)liberalism / Michael Freeden; title: Europe as a colonial project : a critique of its anti-liberalism / Fabian Klose; title: Facing the future backwards :  'Abendland' as an anti-liberal idea of Europe in Germany between the First World War and the 1960s / Vanesa Conze; title: The call for a new European order : origins and variants of the anti-liberal concept of the "Europe of the regions" / Undine Ruge; title: The 'New European Order' of national socialism : some remarks on its sources, genesis and manifestations / Jurgen Elvert; title: Three kinds of collaboration : concepts of Europe and the 'Franco-German understanding' : the career of SS Brigadefuhrer Gustav Krukenberg / Peter Schuttler; title: Communist Europeanism : a case study of the GDR / Jana Wuestenhagen; title: Afterword : the limits of an anti-liberal Europe / Martin Conway.