The Idea of Europe
Subtitle: from antiquity to the European Union
By: edited by Anthony Pagden
Contributors: Pagden, Anthony
Series: Woodrow Wilson Center series
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, DC; Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: European Union; European federation; Nationalism -- Europe; Political culture -- Europe; Europe -- Politics and government; Europe -- Civilization; Europe -- Ethnic relations
Description: This book addresses the question of what it means, and has meant, to be "European," covering the period from Antiquity to the end of the twentieth century. The essays discuss questions of politics, law, religion, culture, literature, and even affectivity in a broad account of how a distinctive European identity has grown over the centuries and its place in the future evolution of the European Union. In the massive literature of European integration, no other book takes such a long historical perspective, and none other deals directly with the question of identity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Anthony Pagden; title: Europe : conceptualizing a continent / Anthony Pagden; title: Some Europes in their history / J.G.A. Pocock; title: "Europe" in the Middle Ages / William Chester Jordan; title: The republican mirror : the Dutch idea of Europe / Hans W. Blom; title: The Napoleonic empire and the Europe of nations / Biancamaria Fontana; title: Homo politicus and homo oeconomicus : the European citizen according to Max Weber / Wilfried Nippel; title: The European self : rethinking an attitude / Michael Herzfeld; title: European nationalism and European union / Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia; title: From the ironies of identity to the identities of irony / Luisa Passerini; title: Muslims and European identity : can Europe represent Islam? / Talal Asad; title: The long road to unity : the contribution of law to the process of European integration since 1945 / Philip Ruttley; title: The euro, economic federalism, and the question of national sovereignty / Elie Cohen; title: Identity politics and European integration : the case of Germany / Thomas Risse and Daniela Engelmann-Martin; title: Nationalisms in Spain : the organization of convivencia / Andrés de Blas Guerrero; title: The Kantian idea of Europe : critical and cosmopolitan perspectives / James Tully