Reflections On Europe

Author : Ralf Dahrendorf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351494199

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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe by Ralf Dahrendorf Pdf

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 effectively ended the division of Europe into East and West, and the features of our world that have resulted bear little resemblance to those of the forty years that preceded the Wall's fall. The rise of a new Europe prompts many questions, most of which remain to be answered. What does it all mean? Where is it going to lead? Are we witnessing the conclusion of an era without seeing anything to replace an old and admittedly dismal way of life? What will a market economy do to the social texture of various countries of Central Europe? Will it not make some rich while many will become poorer than ever? How can the rule of law be brought about?In this incisive and lucid book, Ralf Dahrendorf, one of Europe's most distinguished scholars, ponders these and other equally vexing questions. He regards what has happened in East Central Europe as a victory for neither of the social systems that once opposed each other across the Iron Curtain. Rather, he views these events as a vote for an open society over a closed society. The continuing conundrum, he argues, which will plague peoples everywhere, will be how to balance the need for economic growth with the desire for social justice while building authentic and enduring democratic institutions.Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, which includes a new introduction from the author, is a humane, skeptical, and anti-utopian work, a manifesto for a radical liberalism in which the social entitlements of citizenship are as important a condition of progress as the opportunities for choice. A fascinating study of change and geopolitics in the modern world, Reflections points the way towards a new politics for the twenty-first century. Ralf Dahrendorf, born in Hamburg, Germany in 1929, is a member of Britain's House of Lords. He was professor of sociology at Hamburg, Tobingen and Konstanz from 1957 to 1968, and in 1974 moved to Britain. He has been the director

Author : Christopher Caldwell
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780385529242

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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe by Christopher Caldwell Pdf

In light of cultural crises such as the Danish cartoon controversy and the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, Christopher Caldwell’s incisive perspective has never been more timely or indispensible. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is destined to become the classic work on how Muslim immigration permanently reshaped the West. This provocative and unflinching analysis of Europe’s unexpected influx of immigrants investigates the increasingly prominent Muslim populations actively shaping the future of the continent. Muslims dominate or nearly dominate many important European cities, including Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Strasbourg and Marseille, the Paris suburbs and East London, and in those cities Islam has challenged the European way of life at every turn, becoming, in effect, an “adversary culture.” In Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Caldwell examines the anger of natives and newcomers alike. He exposes the strange ways in which welfare states interact with Third World customs, the anti-Americanism that brings European natives and Muslim newcomers together, and the arguments over women and sex that drive them apart. He considers the appeal of sharia, “resistance,” and jihad to a second generation that is more alienated from Europe than the first, and addresses a crisis of faith among native Europeans that leaves them with a weak hand as they confront the claims of newcomers.

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253316936

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The Other Heading by Jacques Derrida Pdf

Like a navigator, Derrida sets out from a Europe that has always defined itself as the capital of culture, the headland of thought, in whose name and for whose benefit exploration of other lands, other peoples, and other ways of thinking has been carried out. If such Eurocentric biases are not to be repeated, Derrida warns, the question of Europe must be asked in a new way; it must be asked by recalling another heading. Not only is it necessary for Europe to be responsible for the other, but its own identity is actually constituted by the other. Rejecting the easy or programmatic solutions of Euruocentrism or anti-Eurocentrism, of total unification or complete dispersion, Derrida argues for the necessity of working with and from the Enlightenment values of liberal democracy while at the same time recalling that these values do not themselves ensure respect for the other.

Author : Dennis L. Bark
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0817994939

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Author : Hans-Åke Persson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 905201065X

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Reflections on Europe by Hans-Åke Persson Pdf

When Dutch and subsequently French voters rejected the Draft Treaty for a Constitution for Europe in Spring 2005, many voices called for a pause for reflection. This book is, in part, a result of that moment of reflection. We wanted to contribute to the debate about Europe but crucially, we sought to do so by taking a step back from the problem formation and agenda-setting of Brussels. For the authors of this volume, one key to establishing critical distance has been the reappraisal of the historical perspective. Another has been the problematisation of 'Europe as a space' as opposed to looking for a definition of borders. The authors also seek critical distance through a focus on the tension between Europe as a culture, as a polity and as an economy. These tensions have often been neglected or even ignored and the relationships have been seen as more or less synonymous and harmonious. The aim of this volume, then, is two-fold. It wants, developing a critical distance to the present Europe, to contribute to the vivid academic research and debate on Europe, which too often either develops distance without commenting on the present state of affairs or comments on the present without critical distance.

Author : Afshin Ellian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9059313682

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Reflections on Democracy in the European Union by Afshin Ellian Pdf

“This book is an enrichment for the standing debate about Europe and should be published and widely read and discussed.” - Boudewijn R.A. Bouckaert Reflections on Democracy in the European Union, with a foreword by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, is a unique volume that offers an interdisciplinary approach on EU democracy, law and politics from economic, juridical and philosophical perspectives. It is divided in three parts and deals with EU's contemporary challenges, its historical development, democracy and rule of law. The volume connects the EU's present to the past in order to reflect on possible future scenario's - which is especially important in these turbulent times after Brexit. The volume is highly recommended for academics, economists, politicians, jurists and policy makers. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Author : Peter Paret
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0807823562

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Imagined Battles by Peter Paret Pdf

For thousands of years, art has interpreted the experience of war_its methods, human costs, and moral ambiguities_and has offered historians a wealth of testimony that is only beginning to be systematically explored. In this wide-ranging study, Peter Paret discusses forty-seven paintings and prints as complex documents of war in Europe since the Renaissance and as examples of the artist's use of war as a metaphor for the human condition. The images include works by such major artists as Uccello, Géricault, and Dix as well as academic history paintings and popular prints. By setting each in its historical environment and analyzing it from the perspective of the wars of its time, illuminates the place of war in Western consciousness and expands our understanding of works that are too often approached with little concern for the reality they depict or symbolically transform. Perhaps the most significant of the themes he traces over five centuries is the gradual change from the prince or general to the common soldier and civilian victim as central figures in the interpretation of war in art.

Author : Ursula E. Beitter
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0820481939

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Reflections on Europe in Transition by Ursula E. Beitter Pdf

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Author : D. Phinnemore,A. Warleigh-Lack
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230232839

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Reflections on European Integration by D. Phinnemore,A. Warleigh-Lack Pdf

Exploring the development of the European Union, this book examines the ways in which it has been studied over fifty years from the vantage point of four disciplines, each side of the Atlantic, and both academic and practitioner perspectives. Drawing on contributions by some of the world's leading scholars in the field, it maps the past and present of both the EU and EU studies before setting out a provocative agenda for future work in the area.

Author : Afshin Ellian,Raisa Blommestijn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9490947865

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Reflections on Democracy in the European Union by Afshin Ellian,Raisa Blommestijn Pdf

Reflections on democracy in the European Union', with a foreword by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, offers an interdisciplinary approach on EU democracy, law and politics from economic, juridical and philosophical perspectives. It is divided in three parts and deals with EU's contemporary challenges, its historical development, democracy and rule of law. The volume connects the EU's present to the past in order to reflect on possible future scenarios - which is especially important in these turbulent times after Brexit.

Author : Ralf Dahrendorf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349256532

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After 1989 by Ralf Dahrendorf Pdf

The essays assembled in this volume are a thoughtful and lively commentary on Europe after the revolution of 1989. Must revolutions fail? Certainly, the open society has its own problems, not least that of citizens in search of meaning. The Good Society has to square the circle of prosperity, civility and liberty. Social science can help us understand what needs to be done, and intellectuals have a responsibility to initiate and accompany change. All this raises questions for Europe which extend far beyond the all too narrow confines of the European Union.

Author : Martha Kuhlman,José Alaniz
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789462702127

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Comics of the New Europe by Martha Kuhlman,José Alaniz Pdf

Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain like East Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine, given their shared history of WWII and communism. In addition to situating these graphic narratives in their national and subnational contexts, Comics of the New Europe pays particular attention to transnational connections along the common themes of nostalgia, memoir, and life under communism. The essays offer insights into a new generation of European cartoonists that looks forward, inspired and informed by traditions from Franco-Belgian and American comics, and back, as they use the medium of comics to reexamine and reevaluate not only their national pasts and respective comics traditions but also their own post-1989 identities and experiences.

Author : Nathan Widder
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271033945

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Reflections on Time and Politics by Nathan Widder Pdf

"Explores the nature of time and its implications for questions of politics, ethics, and the self. Shows how a conception of time that breaks with common sense notions of chronological order can help us rethink the understandings of identity, difference, power, resistance, and overcoming"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Lars Jensen,Julia Suárez-Krabbe,Christian Groes,Zoran Lee Pecic
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786603067

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Postcolonial Europe by Lars Jensen,Julia Suárez-Krabbe,Christian Groes,Zoran Lee Pecic Pdf

How has European identity been shaped through its colonial empires? Does this history of imperialism influence the conceptualisation of Europe in the contemporary globalised world? How has coloniality shaped geopolitical differences within Europe? What does this mean for the future of Europe? Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires brings together scholars from across disciplines to rethink European colonialism in the light of its vanishing empires and the rise of new global power structures. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the postcolonial European legacy, the book argues that the commonly used nation-centric approach does not effectively capture the overlap between different colonial and postcolonial experiences across Europe.

Author : Aurelian Cr_iu_u,Jeffrey C. Isaac
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271033907

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America Through European Eyes by Aurelian Cr_iu_u,Jeffrey C. Isaac Pdf

"A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.