Engaging Europe : rethinking a changing continent / edited by Evlyn Gould and George J. Sheridan, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gould, Evlyn.

Sheridan, George J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Civilization.

Europe.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xvii, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2005]

Summary:

What and where and who is Europe? This unique collection contends that Europe cannot be defined as simply a particular geographic location or a group of citizens who inhabit the same place and share a culture. Instead, Europe is a question to be answered by the teachers and students who study it. A collaborative and multidisciplinary collection, Engaging Europe explores Europe through history, literature, philosophy, music, and ethical narratives. This book is a major part of an experiment that hopes to find more intellectually exciting ways to teach Europe to students in American higher education.

Contents:

The idea of Europe / Evlyn Gould and George J. Sheridan Jr

A story of Europe / George J. Sheridan, Jr.

The idea of Europe, Levinas, and Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice / Steven Shankman

Relocating Europe / Alexander B. Murphy

Idea of Rome, idea of Europe / John Nicols

Provincia Gallia Narbonensis / Steven Shankman

Listening and the art of survival / Robert Kyr

Primo Levi's Testimony, or Philosophy between poetry and science / Massimo Lollini

Europe in the wake of the Shoah / Evlyn Gould

Autonomy and the mistress discipline in European thought / Malcolm Wilson

Does Baudelaire read Adam Smith? / Evlyn Gould and George J. Sheridan, Jr.

On charting Europeanness / Joseph Krause.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index.

ISBN:

0742537803

OCLC:

57475874