Re: Thinking Europe
Title | Re: Thinking Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Yoeri Albrecht |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN | 9789462983151 |
A host of prominent and influential thinkers such as political scientist Ivan Krastev and historians Philipp Blom and Adam Zamoyski have been invited to write essays. Their thoughts are assembled in the anthology Re: Thinking Europe.
Thinking Europe
Title | Thinking Europe PDF eBook |
Author | MATS ANDRÉN |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2022-10-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1800735707 |
Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in a dynamic and dramatic tension between calls for unity and arguments for borders and division. Through an in-depth intellectual history of the idea of Europe, Mats Andren interrogates the concept of integration and more recent debates surrounding European identity across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the post-war period. Applying a broad range of original sources this unique work will be key reading for students and researchers studying European History, European Studies, Political History and related fields.
Thinking Through Transition
Title | Thinking Through Transition PDF eBook |
Author | Michal Kope?ek |
Publisher | Central European University Press |
Pages | 611 |
Release | 2015-11-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9633860857 |
This book is the first concentrated effort to explore the most recent chapter of East Central European past from the perspective of intellectual history. Post-socialism can be understood both as a period of scarcity and preponderance of ideas, the dramatic eclipsing of the dissident legacy?as well as the older political traditions?and the rise of technocratic and post-political governance. This book, grounded in empirical research sensitive to local contexts, proposes instead a history of adaptations, entanglements, and unintended consequences. In order to enable and invite comparison, the volume is structured around major domains of political thought, some of them generic (liberalism, conservatism, the Left), others (populism and politics of history) deemed typical for post-socialism. However, as shown by the authors, the generic often turns out to be heavily dependent on its immediate setting, and the typical resonates with processes that are anything but vernacular.
The Thinking Space
Title | The Thinking Space PDF eBook |
Author | Leona Rittner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2016-03-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317014146 |
The cafe is not only a place to enjoy a cup of coffee, it is also a space - distinct from its urban environment - in which to reflect and take part in intellectual debate. Since the eighteenth century in Europe, intellectuals and artists have gathered in cafes to exchange ideas, inspirations and information that has driven the cultural agenda for Europe and the world. Without the café, would there have been a Karl Marx or a Jean-Paul Sartre? The café as an institutional site has been the subject of renewed interest amongst scholars in the past decade, and its role in the development of art, ideas and culture has been explored in some detail. However, few have investigated the ways in which cafés create a cultural and intellectual space which brings together multiple influences and intellectual practices and shapes the urban settings of which they are a part. This volume presents an international group of scholars who consider cafés as sites of intellectual discourse from across Europe during the long modern period. Drawing on literary theory, history, cultural studies and urban studies, the contributors explore the ways in which cafes have functioned and evolved at crucial moments in the histories of important cities and countries - notably Paris, Vienna and Italy. Choosing these sites allows readers to understand both the local particularities of each café while also seeing the larger cultural connections between these places. By revealing how the café operated as a unique cultural context within the urban setting, this volume demonstrates how space and ideas are connected. As our global society becomes more focused on creativity and mobility the intellectual cafés of past generations can also serve as inspiration for contemporary and future knowledge workers who will expand and develop this tradition of using and thinking in space.
Re:thinking Europe
Title | Re:thinking Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Mathieu Segers |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2016-06-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9048533074 |
What are the characteristics of European culture and identity? In which way can culture contribute to the current crisis of meaning within the EU and Europe? And should we return to the discourse of culture and historical experience in order to find a common ground for Europe? In the run-up to the Forum we will publish an anthology on these urgent questions. A host of prominent and influential thinkers such as political scientist Ivan Krastev and historians Philipp Blom and Adam Zamoyski have been invited to write essays. Their thoughts are assembled in the anthology Re:Thinking Europe. In addition to these current day reflections, a selection of often overlooked classical texts that have proved fundamental importance for Europe have been curated.
The Idea of Europe
Title | The Idea of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Shane Weller |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2021-06-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108478107 |
This book offers a new critical history of the idea of Europe from classical antiquity to the present day.
Thinking Europe
Title | Thinking Europe PDF eBook |
Author | MATS ANDRÉN |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2022-10-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1800735693 |
List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Unity and Borders (1800-1914) -- Chapter 1. Dreaming of unity -- Chapter 2. Longing for borders -- Chapter 3. Looking for common ground -- Chapter 4. Performing communality -- Part II. Crisis and Decline (1914-1945) -- Chapter 5. Passage to a new Europe: the First World War -- Chapter 6. Fearing crisis -- Chapter 7. Organising for Europe -- Part III. Integration and identity (1945-) -- Chapter 8. Claiming European unity and a Europe of nations -- Chapter 9. Elevating European awareness -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.