Europe and Empire - On the Political Forms of Globalization

Informationen zum Autor Massimo Cacciari (Author) Massimo Cacciari has been Dean of Philosophy at the Università San Raffaele in Milan and has served three times as mayor of Venice. He was also a member of the European Parliament in 1999. His books in English include Architecture and Nihilism, Posthumous People, The Necessary Angel, and The Unpolitical. Massimo Verdicchio (Translator) Massimo Verdicchio is professor of Italian and comparative literature at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Naming Things, Reading Dante Reading, and The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso. Klappentext Assesses the current situation of Europe ten years after the adoption of the single currency. Examines the genealogy of the idea of Europe from the Greek confrontation with the Asia to the conflict between the Roman Empire and Christianity. Discusses the role of secularization in the shaping of modern Europe. Zusammenfassung Assesses the current situation of Europe ten years after the adoption of the single currency. Examines the genealogy of the idea of Europe from the Greek confrontation with the Asia to the conflict between the Roman Empire and Christianity. Discusses the role of secularization in the shaping of modern Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Massimo Cacciari, Massimo/ Carrera Cacciari
• Assisted by: Alessandro Carrera (Editor), Massimo Verdicchio (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9780823267163
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6716-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Commonalities (FUP); Commonalities; Commonalities
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education