Imagining Europe - Myth, Memory, and Identity

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formative process of a European identity situated between myth and memory. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Chiara Bottici, Chiara (New School for Social Research Bottici, Chiara Challand Bottici, Beno T. Challand, Benoit Challand, Benoît Challand, Benoit (New York University) Challand
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107015616
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01561-6
• No. of pages: 217
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works