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Record Nr.

UNINA9910311935503321

Autore

Dainotto Roberto M (Roberto Maria), <1962->

Titolo

Europe (in theory) / / Roberto M. Dainotto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-283-02309-1

9786613023094

0-8223-8962-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

940

Soggetti

National characteristics, European

Europe Civilization

Europe Intellectual life 18th century

Europe Intellectual life 19th century

Europe Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : a pigs eye view of Europe -- The discovery of Europe : some critical points -- Montesquieu's north and south : history as a theory of Europe -- Republics of letters : what is European literature? -- Mme de Stael to Hegel : the end of French Europe -- Orientalism, Mediterranean style : the limits of history at the margins of Europe.

Sommario/riassunto

A postcolonial study of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century theorizations that have informed the dominant idea of Europe, a concept that has marginalized the southern "other" within it's own borders.