When culture becomes politics
Subtitle: European identity in perspective
By: by Thomas Pedersen
Publisher: Aarhus University Press; David Brown Book Co. [distributor]
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aarhus, Denmark; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9788779342828
Subjects: Nationalism; Political culture; Group identity; European National characteristics
Other titles: European identity in perspective
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-311).
Table of contents: title: Integrism : culture is choice; title: Do Europeans regard themselves as European?; title: Culture, identity and nation; title: The importance of historical experience; title: Sources of national identity; title: Sources of transnational identity; title: A brief, comparative reflection; title: Europe as a cultural community; title: What is unique about Europe; title: "Old" Europe and "new" Europe; title: Orientalization? the challenge from China, Japan and the Islamic world; title: Europe's international identity; title: Protecting Europe's uniqueness; title: The limits of symbolic identity; title: Value identity : variations on the theme of democracy; title: Citizenship and constitutional identity; title: Performance identity : Europe as a working community?; title: Cosmopolitanism and inter-civilizational dialogue.