Titlebook: Inventing Europe; Gerard Delanty Book 1995 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1995 Europe.history.human rights

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Overview: A critical analysis of the idea of Europe and the limits and possibilities of a European identity in the broader perspective of history. This book argues that the crucial issue is the articulation of a new identity that is based on post-national citizenship rather than ambivalent notions of unity.978-0-312-12569-1978-0-230-37965-7

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The Ambivalence of Europe: A Theoretical Introduction,truction and argue that it cannot be regarded as a self-evident entity: it is an idea as much as a reality. Europe, I shall be arguing, is a contested concept and it was in adversity that it became a self-conscious idea. As the central and organising metaphor of a complex civilisation, the European

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The Origins of the Idea of Europe, the Middle Ages whereby a particular discourse of power is privileged over against others. The nexus of this discourse is the West-East dualism and the corresponding counter-factualism of an ‘us’/’them’ polarity. I wish to show that one of the most enduring forms of western identity was the postula

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The Westernisation of Europe,iddle Ages. The counter-offensive, in the form of the crusades that the West launched against the Muslim Orient, failed to restore western fortunes, and, as a result, the identity of Europe as the Christian West found its focus of hostility in Islam. But the idea of Europe as a cultural model was mo

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The Limits of Europe: The Shifting Frontier,t what is often, and misleadingly, called ‘Eastern Europe’, in fact consists of at least two historical regions which can be contrasted to ‘Western Europe’, on the one hand, and to Russia and Turkey on the other. These regions are firstly, south-east Europe, comprising principally the Balkans, and,

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Europe in the Mirror of the Orient, of Europe found its most enduring expression in the confrontation with the Orient in the age of imperialism. It was in the encounter with other civilisations that the identity of Europe was shaped. Europe did not derive its identity from itself but from the formation of a set of global contrasts. I

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The Crisis of European Identity, to a cultural-political idea. The term suggests something much more ideological than the idea of Europe. Today there is a strong tendency to revive the idea of Central Europe, which is seen as the true historical heritage of the area which, since the Second World War, has become known as ‘Eastern E

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