The idea of Europe : from antiquity to the European Union / edited by Anthony Pagden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pagden, Anthony, editor.

Series:

Woodrow Wilson Center Press (Series)

Woodrow Wilson Center Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

European federation.

Nationalism--Europe.

Nationalism.

Political culture--Europe.

Political culture.

Europe--Politics and government.

Europe.

Europe--Civilization.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 377 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The creation of the European Union and the progressive integration of the European states has raised serious questions about the existence of a distinctive European identity. Do the British share much in common with the French, or the French with the Danes? Will a unified Europe remain an economic and political possibility with no greater cultural or affective foundations? If there is something that distinguishes all Europeans, what is it, and how is it being changed by recent events? This book addresses these questions in essays ranging from ancient Greece to the end of the twentieth century. Their authors come from different intellectual backgrounds and represent differing intellectual traditions. They discuss questions of politics, religion, commerce, law, language, literature and affectivity. Taken together, they provide a powerful insight into the historical origins of the idea of Europe and into the future of the European Union.

Contents:

Introduction / Anthony Pagden

Europe : conceptualizing a continent / Anthony Pagden

Some Europes in their history / J.G.A. Pocock

"Europe" in the Middle Ages / William Chester Jordan

The republican mirror : the Dutch idea of Europe / Hans W. Blom

The Napoleonic empire and the Europe of nations / Biancamaria Fontana

Homo politicus and homo oeconomicus : the European citizen according to Max Weber / Wilfried Nippel

The European self : rethinking an attitude / Michael Herzfeld

European nationalism and European union / Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia

From the ironies of identity to the identities of irony / Luisa Passerini

Muslims and European identity : can Europe represent Islam? / Talal Asad

The long road to unity : the contribution of law to the process of European integration since 1945 / Philip Ruttley

The euro, economic federalism, and the question of national sovereignty / Elie Cohen

Identity politics and European integration : the case of Germany / Thomas Risse and Daniela Engelmann-Martin

Nationalisms in Spain : the organization of convivencia / Andrés de Blas Guerrero

The Kantian idea of Europe : critical and cosmopolitan perspectives / James Tully.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12972-9

1-280-16034-9

0-511-11901-1

1-139-14680-7

0-511-06723-2

0-511-06092-0

0-511-32631-9

0-511-49681-8

0-511-06936-7

OCLC:

776962731