The Idea of Europe
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The Idea of Europe

A Critical History

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The Idea of Europe

A Critical History

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There is an increasingly widespread sense that Europe is in crisis. Notions of a shared European identity and a common European culture appear to be losing their purchase. This crisis is often seen as a conflict between a cosmopolitan and a nationalist idea of Europe. The reality is, however, considerably more complex, as the long history of the idea of Europe reveals. In The Idea of Europe: A Critical History, Shane Weller explores that history from its origins in classical antiquity to the present day. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he demonstrates that, all too often, seemingly progressive ideas of Europe have been shaped by Eurocentric, culturally supremacist, and even racist assumptions. Seeking to break with this troubling pattern, Weller calls for an idea of Europe shaped by a spirit of self-critique and by an openness to those cultures that have for so long been dismissed as non-European.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781108787253
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1 Myths of Europa: From Classical Antiquity to the Enlightenment
  9. Chapter 2 A Great Republic of Cultivated Minds: 1712–1815
  10. Chapter 3 Nationalism and Universalism: 1815–1848
  11. Chapter 4 The Russia Question
  12. Chapter 5 Homo Europaeus: 1848–1918
  13. Chapter 6 The European Spirit: 1918–1933
  14. Chapter 7 A New European Order: 1933–1945
  15. Chapter 8 Unity in Diversity: 1945–1989
  16. Chapter 9 Other Europes
  17. Chapter 10 Europe against Itself: 1989 to the Present Day
  18. Conclusion: Good Europeans?
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index