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Figures d'Europe / Images and Myths of Europe

English, French · Paperback / Softback

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Dans ce livre, des spécialistes de disciplines diverses et de pays et de continents différents analysent ce qui est demeuré implicite dans la création et l'adoption de symboles et de mythes d'une Europe toujours en construction. La publication tend à évaluer le "déficit symbolique" présumé de l'Union européenne et de l'Europe et explore l'histoire et la signification de certains mythes et symboles de l'Europe d'aujourd'hui, comme le mythe de l'enlèvement d'Europe, l'hymne et le drapeau européens, la représentation du continent, de même que le sens que les experts ou les Européens attribuent à l'euro. La nouvelle monnaie illustre la problématique du futur sentiment d'appartenance à l'Europe, qui nécessitera une multiplication des échanges entre ses peuples et ses cultures pour donner lieu à une forme d'identité libre et multiculturelle.
In this publication, scholars from various disciplines and from a dozen countries of Europe and other continents intend to make explicit what has remained implicit in the creation or adoption of symbols and myths for a Europe that is under construction. The book is devoted to assessing the supposed "symbolic deficit" of the European Union and of Europe as a whole. It analyses the history and meanings of some of the myths and symbols for Europe today, such as the myth of Europa and the bull, but also the European hymn and flag, and the representations of the continent. It also explores the meanings which have been attributed to the Euro by both experts and ordinary people; the new coin reminds us of the problematic nature of possible future senses of belonging to Europe, which will require exchanges between different peoples and cultures in order to give rise to an open and multicultural form of identity.

List of contents

Contenu/Contents: Romano Prodi: Préface/Preface - Luisa Passerini: Dimensions of the Symbolic in the Construction of Europeanness - Stuart Hall: "In But Not of Europe": Europe and Its Myths - Hartmut Kaelble: European Symbols, 1945-2000: Concept, Meaning and Historical Change - Jacques-René Rabier: Tradition et résurgences d'un mythe: le ravissement d'Europe - Michael Rice: When Archetype Meets Archetype: The Bull and Europa - Esteban Buch: Parcours et paradoxes de l'hymne européen - Yves Hersant: Douze étoiles d'or - Darby Lewes: The Site/Sight of Europa: Representations of Women in European Cartography - Jean-Michel Servet: L'euro: fenêtres et ponts d'un nomadisme monétaire - Richard Waswo: The Fact (and Figures) of the Supreme Fiction - Suzanne Shanahan: Currency and Community: European Identity and the Euro.

Product details

Assisted by Luisa Passerini (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English, French
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.04.2016
 
EAN 9789052011899
ISBN 978-90-5201-189-9
No. of pages 192
Dimensions 150 mm x 10 mm x 220 mm
Weight 272 g
Series Europe plurielle / Multiple Europes
Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Europe plurielle / Multiple Europes
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989)
Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

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