Format:
1 Online-Ressource (215 pages)
ISBN:
9780823267194
Series Statement:
Commonalities
Content:
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
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Previous Publication -- Introduction: Massimo Cacciari's Genealogy of Europe -- Part I: Thinking Europe -- 1 Thinking Europe -- 2 Europeanism -- 3 Two German Speeches: The "Second Thought" -- The Language of Europe -- 4 Europe or Philosophy -- 5 Europe or Christianity -- Part II: The Idea of Empire -- 6 What Is Empire? -- 7 The Myth of the Growing City -- 8 Digressions on Empire and the Three Romes -- 9 More on the Idea of Empire -- 10 Empire and Katechon: A Question of Political Theology (from Paul, 2 Thessalonians 2) -- Addenda -- 11 The Europe of María Zambrano -- 12 We Cannot Call Ourselves Only Judeo-Christians: A Conversation with Jacques Le Goff -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823267170
Additional Edition:
Print version Cacciari, Massimo Europe and Empire : On the Political Forms of Globalization New York : Fordham University Press,c2016
Language:
English
