UID:
almahu_9949420123802882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781003083641
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1003083641
Series Statement:
Ideas beyond borders: studies in transnational intellectual history
Content:
"This book investigates how ideas of and discourses about Europe have been affected by images of the Mediterranean Sea and its many worlds from the nineteenth century onwards. Surprisingly, modern scholars have often neglected such an influence and, in fact, in most histories of the idea of Europe the Mediterranean is conspicuously absent. This might partly be explained by the fact that historians have often identified Europe with modernity (and the Atlantic world) and, therefore, in opposition to the classical world (centred around the Mediterranean). This book will challenge such views, showing that a plethora of thinkers, from the early nineteenth century to the present, have refused to relegate the Mediterranean to the past. Importance is given to the idea of a distinct 'meridian thought', a notion first set forth by Albert Camus and now reworked by French and Italian thinkers. As most chapters argue, this might represent an important tool for rethinking the Mediterranean and, in turn, it might help us challenge received notions about European identity and rethink Europe as the locus of 'modernity'. Mediterranean Europe(s): Rethinking Europe from its Southern Shores will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in European studies and Mediterranean history"--
Note:
This volume is the outcome of the ninth annual conference of the Research Network for the History of the Idea of Europe, entitled 'Mediterranean Europe(s): Images and Ideas of Europe from the Mediterranean Shores'. The conference was held in Naples, at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici on 4-6 July 2018.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Mediterranean Europe(s) New York : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9780367538965
Language:
English
Keywords:
Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Konferenzschrift
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003083641
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