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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812555903321

Titolo

Anti-liberal Europe : a neglected story of Europeanization / / edited by Dieter Gosewinkel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-426-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

New German Historical Perspectives ; ; Volume 6

Disciplina

320.5094

Soggetti

Liberalism - Europe - History - 20th century

Political culture - Europe - History - 20th century

Nationalism - Europe - History - 20th century

European federation

National characteristics, European

Europe Civilization 20th century

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Anti-liberal Europe; New German Historical Perspectives; Anti-liberal Europe - A Neglected Story of Europeanization Edited by Dieter Gosewinkel; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; part i Concepts; Introduction - Anti-liberal Europe - A Neglected Source of Europeanism - Dieter Gosewinkel; 1 The Elusiveness of European (Anti-)liberalism - Michael Freeden; part ii Anti-liberalism: A Feature of Colonial and Conservative Concepts of Europe; 2 Europe as a Colonial Project - A Critique of its Anti-liberalism - Fabian Klose

3 Facing the Future Backwards 'Abendland' as an Anti-liberal Idea of Europe in Germany between the First World War and the 1960s - Vanessa Conze4 The Call for a New European Order - Origins and Variants of the Anti-liberal Concept of the 'Europe of the Regions' - Undine Ruge; part iii Anti-liberal Europe in Dictatorships and their Aftermath; 5 The 'New European Order' of National Socialism - Some Remarks on its Sources, Genesis and Nature - Jürgen Elvert

6 Three Kinds of Collaboration - Concepts of Europe and the 'Franco-



German Understanding' - The Career of SS-Brigadeführer Gustav Krukenberg - Peter Schöttler7 Communist Europeanism - A Case Study of the GDR - Jana Wuestenhagen; Afterword - The Limits of an Anti-liberal Europe - Martin Conway; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The history of modern Europe is often presented with the hindsight of present-day European integration, which was a genuinely liberal project based on political and economic freedom. Many other visions for Europe developed in the 20th century, however, were based on an idea of community rooted in pre-modern religious ideas, cultural or ethnic homogeneity, or even in coercion and violence. They frequently rejected the idea of modernity or reinterpreted it in an antiliberal manner. Anti-liberal Europe examines these visions, including those of anti-modernist Catholics, conservatives, extreme ri