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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817666303321

Titolo

The idea of Europe : the clash of projections / / edited by Vladimir Biti, Joep Leerssen, and Vivian Liska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

90-04-44944-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 203 pages)

Collana

European Studies ; ; 37

Disciplina

341.2422

Soggetti

Nationalism - European Union countries

Group identity - European Union countries

Group identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rethinking the idea of Europe -- Jan Patočka on Europe in the aftermath of Europe / Rodolphe Gasché -- Post-imperial Europe : the return of the indistinct / Vladimir Biti -- Can the European heritage be redeemed? Confessions of a Europeanist / Gerard Delanty -- Europe and a geopolitics of hope / Luiza Bialasiewicz -- Crisscrossing projections -- Eurotypes after Eurocentrism : mixed feelings in an uncomfortable world / Joep Leersen -- Rock, mirror, mirage : Europe, elsewhere / Lucia Boldrini -- You say Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité? Japanes critical perceptions of the idea of Europe : a preliminary reflection for the regeneration of universal humanism / Shigemi Inaga -- East looks west and west looks east : images of Russia / Aage Hansen-Löve -- The heterotopias of Europe -- On the margins of (the idea of) Europe : a tale of two Galicias as constructive comparativism / César Domínguez and Nikol Dziub -- United Europe and disunited Yugoslavia / Damir Arsenijević -- "A marvellous leeway" : Walter Benjamin's idea of Europe / Vivian Liska.

Sommario/riassunto

Recent developments within and beyond Europe have variously challenged the very idea of Europe, calling it into question and demanding reconsideration of its underlying assumptions. The essays collected here reassess the contemporary position of a perceived



"European" identity in the world, overshadowed as it is by the long antecedents and current crisis of triumphalist Eurocentrism. While Eurocentrism itself is still a potent mind-set, it is now increasingly challenged by intra-European crises and by the emergence of autonomously non-European perceptions of Europe. The perspectives assembled here come from the fields of political, cultural and literary history, contemporary history, social and political science and philosophy.