Chiara Bottici (New York New School for Social Research), Benoit Challand (New York University)

Imagining Europe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is Europe? What are its boundaries? Is there a specific European identity or is the EU just the name for a group of institutions? This book answers these questions, showing that in Europe's formation, myth and memory, although distinct, are often merged in a common attempt to construct a present identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781107641648
• ISBN-10: 1107641640
• Artikelnr.: 37294753

Autorenporträt

Chiara Bottici is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of A Philosophy of Political Myth (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Men and States: Rethinking the Domestic Analogy in a Global Age (2009). She is co-author (with Benoît Challand) of The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations (2010) and co-editor (with Benoît Challand) of The Politics of Imagination (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Memory and Identity: 1. Europe, identity, and legitimacy; 2. European identity and the politics of remembrance; 3. East and West: divided memories in a united Europe; Part II. Myth and Identity: 4. Myths of Europe; 5. Europe's significant others: the Cold War and beyond; 6. From sickle to crescent: religion and European identity; Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'The book reveals how identity and legitimacy are interconnected: identity conditioning legitimacy and memory constructing European identity. Imagining Europe acknowledges that Europe is often divided into north-south or east-west perspectives.' Emilia Palonen, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology