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Europe against Revolution seeks to uncover the roots of historically-informed ideas of Europe and of European history, while underlining the fundamental differences between the writings of the older counter-revolutionary Europeanists and their self-appointed successors and detractors in the twenty-first century.
List of contents
- Prologue: Politics of the Past
- 1: The Ancient Edifice
- 2: An Unfinished History
- 3: The Philosopher's Apprentice
- 4: Crusaders for Moderation
- 5: Equilibrium against Empire
- 6: The Pluralist Republic
- 7: Ancient and Modern State Systems
- 8: Vienna as a missed Opportunity
- 9: Revivals of Historical Europeanism
About the author
Matthijs Lok studied European history at the Universities of Liverpool, Leiden, and Yale, followed by a brief career as a policy advisor. In 2009 he took his PhD at the History Department of the University of Amsterdam. In 2011 Lok received tenure as an universitair docent and in 2015 he became senior university lecturer. Lok was appointed a senior fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study NIAS (2019-20) and held visiting positions at the Lichtenberg Kolleg & Moritz Stern Institut Göttingen, Germany (2021-22) and the KU Leuven, Belgium (2022).
Summary
Europe against Revolution seeks to uncover the roots of historically-informed ideas of Europe and of European history, while underlining the fundamental differences between the writings of the older counter-revolutionary Europeanists and their self-appointed successors and detractors in the twenty-first century.
Additional text
M. Lok's book offers a rich and stimulating analysis. It provides food for thought for those interested in counter-revolutionary thought and the European idea, of course, but also more broadly in the cosmopolitan and transnational dynamics of European intellectual life at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
