Format:
Online-Ressource (360 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780857457271
Content:
The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community. During this time of 'crisis,' many contemporaries, especially intellectuals, felt they faced a momentous decision which could bring about a radically different future. The understanding of what Europe was and what it should be was questioned in a profound way, forcing Europeans to react. The idea of a specifically Europea
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The united states of Europe: the European question in the 1920s / Mark HewitsonEurope and the fate of the world: crisis and integration in the late 1940s and 1950s / Mark Hewitson -- Inventing Europe and reinventing the nation-state in a new world order / Mark Hewitson -- Richard Nicolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the Pan-European Union, and the birth of a "new" Europe / Anita Prettenthaler-Ziegerhofer -- Noble continent? German-speaking nobles as theorists of European identity in the interwar period / Dina Gusejnova -- Imperium Europaeum: Rudolf Pannwitz and the German idea of Europe / Jan Vermeiren -- New middle ages or new modernity? Carl Schmitt's interwar perspective on political unity in Europe / Ionut Untea -- Rosenzweig, Schmitt and the concept of Europe / Vittorio Cotesta -- From centre to province: changing images of Europe in the writings of Jerzy Stempowski /?ukasz Miko?ajewski -- Visualizing Europe from 1900 to the 1950s: Identity on the move / Michael Wintle -- Europe and the artistic patrimony of the interwar period: the International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation at the League of Nations / Annamaria Ducci -- Huizinga, the Netherlands and the spirit of Europe, 1933-1945 / Anne-Isabelle Richard -- The idea of European unity in Heinrich Mann's political essays of the 1920s and early 1930s / Ernest Schonfield -- Lucien Febvre and the idea of Europe / Vittorio Dini -- Junius and the president professor: Luigi Einaudi's European Federalism / Matthew D'Auria -- Federate or perish: the continuity and persistence of the federal idea in Europe, 1917-1957 / Michael Burgess -- Conclusion: Europe between a crisis of culture and political regeneration.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857457288
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857457271
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Europe in Crisis : Intellectuals and the European Idea, 1917-1957
Language:
English
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