Katherine Arens

Vienna's Dreams of Europe (eBook, PDF)

Culture and Identity Beyond the Nation-State

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Vienna's Dreams of Europe puts forward a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions of Europe's nation-states, Austria appears only as an afterthought, no matter that its precursor states-the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Austria Hungary-represented a globalized European cultural space outside the dominant paradigm of nationalist colonialism. Austrian writers today confront reunited Europe in full acknowledgment of Austro-Hungary's multicultural heritage, which mixes various nationalities, ethnicities, and cultural forms, including ancestors from the Balkans and beyond.

Challenging standard accounts of 18th- through 20th-century European imperial identity construction, Vienna's Dreams of Europe introduces a group of Austrian public intellectuals and authors who have since the 18th century construed their own public as European. Working in different terms than today's theorist-critics of the hegemonic West, Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441175601
• Artikelnr.: 48423384

Autorenporträt

Katherine Arens is Professor of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published widely on comparative Austrian/German intellectual and cultural histories, most recently Vienna's Dreams of Europe and Belle Necropolis: Ghosts of Imperial Vienna (both 2015), and The Other Kant: Experiments in Embodied Knowledge (with Carlos Amador, forthcoming). She has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Plato Award from the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK.