Visions D Europe

Author : Bronisław Geremek,Robert Picht
Publisher : Odile Jacob
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : Europe
ISBN : 2738120113

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Visions d’Europe by Bronisław Geremek,Robert Picht Pdf

L’Europe a-t-elle encore un projet politique ? Doit-on parler de déficit démocratique ou de crise de légitimité ? Quel avenir pour la Constitution européenne ? Quels scénarios pour demain ? Avons-nous vraiment besoin d’une Europe sociale ? Suffit-il d’étendre les frontières pour devenir une puissance globale ? Cet ouvrage dresse un véritable état de la question et fournit des éclairages précieux et uniques sur le débat européen, ses éléments saillants, ses clivages et ses silences. Une ambition : repenser l’Europe, dans ses principes comme dans ses réalités. À la multiplicité des points de vue traduisant la diversité des disciplines et des nationalités répond le débat entre les générations. Ouvrage de référence autant que boîte à idées, c’est un modèle de ce que l’esprit européen devrait être : multiplicité des voix et des vues ; commune inspiration et détermination à œuvrer ensemble à bâtir l’avenir. Historien, Bronisław Geremek est député européen, après avoir été député à la Diète polonaise et ministre des Affaires étrangères. Sociologue, l’Allemand Robert Picht est vice-recteur du Collège d’Europe. Contributions de J.-L. Bourlanges, U. Eco, J. Le Goff, J. Rupnik, D. Schnapper, T. Todorov, ainsi que de J.-P. Blonde, T. Boéri, U. Frevert, P. van Ham, A. Inotai, H. Kaeble,G. McLaughlin, B. Marin, K. Nicolaidis, L. Siedentop, B. Strath, M.-T. Thiesse, A. Triandafyllidou, H. A. Winkler, W. Wessels.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2286035326

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Visions d'Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Lamberton Harper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521566282

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American Visions of Europe by John Lamberton Harper Pdf

This book is a biographical study of three American statesmen, concentrating on their distinct approaches to the problem of Europe.

Author : Matthew D'Auria,Jan Vermeiren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351678452

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Visions and Ideas of Europe during the First World War by Matthew D'Auria,Jan Vermeiren Pdf

Given the destruction and suffering caused by more than four years of industrialised warfare and economic hardship, scholars have tended to focus on the nationalism and hatred in the belligerent countries, holding that it led to a fundamental rupture of any sense of European commonality and unity. It is the central aim of this volume to correct this view and to highlight that many observers saw the conflict as a ‘European civil war’, and to discuss what this meant for discourses about Europe. Bringing together a remarkable range of compelling and highly original topics, this collection explores notions, images, and ideas of Europe in the midst of catastrophe.

Author : Karolina Czerska-Shaw,Marcin Galent,Bożena Gierat-Bieroń
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1099909043

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Visions and Revisions of Europe by Karolina Czerska-Shaw,Marcin Galent,Bożena Gierat-Bieroń Pdf

Author : Frédéric Bozo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857452887

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Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990 by Frédéric Bozo Pdf

Exploring the visions of the end of the Cold War that have been put forth since its inception until its actual ending, this volume brings to the fore the reflections, programmes, and strategies that were intended to call into question the bipolar system and replace it with alternative approaches or concepts. These visions were associated not only with prominent individuals, organized groups and civil societies, but were also connected to specific historical processes or events. They ranged from actual, thoroughly conceived programmes, to more blurred, utopian aspirations -- or simply the belief that the Cold War had already, in effect, come to an end. Such visions reveal much about the contexts in which they were developed and shed light on crucial moments and phases of the Cold War.

Author : Christina V. Balis,Simon Serfaty
Publisher : CSIS
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0892064412

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Visions of America and Europe by Christina V. Balis,Simon Serfaty Pdf

Antologi. Indeholder en undersøgelse af de transatlantiske forbindelser siden terrorangrebene d. 11. september 2001 i USA samt den efterfølgende krig i Irak. Bogen søger at identificere de grupper, som skaber politiken og offentlighedens opfattelse af relationerne på begge sideraf Atlanten. Ligeledes forsøger den at spore oprindelsen til den opståede splid efter 11.september, samt at belyse de nuværende og fremtidige udfordringer til de bilaterale relationer og forholdet generelt mellem USA og Europa. Perspektiverne belyses ved fem europæiske bidragydere med fokus primært på England, Frankrig, Tyskland, Italien og Rusland og suppleret med tre amerikanske bidragydere.

Author : Jolyon Howorth,Mairi Maclean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:877954608

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Europeans on Europe by Jolyon Howorth,Mairi Maclean Pdf

Author : Dolly Jorgensen,Virginia Langum
Publisher : Cursor Mundi
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 2503574750

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Visions of North in Premodern Europe by Dolly Jorgensen,Virginia Langum Pdf

The North has long attracted attention, not simply as a circumpolar geographical location, but also as an ideological space, a place that is 'made' through the understanding, imagination, and interactions of both insiders and outsiders. The envisioning of the North brings it into being, and it is from this starting point that this volume explores how the North was perceived from ancient times up to the early modern period, questioning who, where, and what was defined as North over the course of two millennia. Covering historical periods as diverse as Ancient Greece to eighteenth-century France, and drawing on a variety of disciplines including cultural history, literary studies, art history, environmental history, and the history of science, the contributions gathered here combine to shed light on one key question: how was the North constructed as a place and a people? Material such as sagas, the ethnographic work of Olaus Magnus, religious writing, maps, medical texts, and illustrations are drawn on throughout the volume, offering important insights into how these key sources continued to be used over time. Selected texts have been compiled into a useful appendix that will be of considerable value to scholars.

Author : Hans Hummer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192518309

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Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe by Hans Hummer Pdf

What meaning did human kinship possess in a world regulated by Biblical time, committed to the primacy of spiritual relationships, and bound by the sinews of divine love? In the process of exploring this question, Hans Hummer offers a searching re-examination of kinship in Europe between late Roman times and the high middle ages, the period bridging Europe's primitive past and its modern future. Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe critiques the modernist and Western bio-genealogical and functionalist assumptions that have shaped kinship studies since their inception in the nineteenth century, when Biblical time collapsed and kinship became a signifier of the essential secularity of history and a method for conceptualizing a deep prehistory guided by autogenous human impulses. Hummer argues that this understanding of kinship is fundamentally antagonistic to medieval sentiments and is responsible for the frustrations researchers have encountered as they have tried to identify the famously elusive kin groups of medieval Europe. He delineates an alternative ethnographic approach inspired by recent anthropological work that privileges indigenous expressions of kinship and the interpretive potential of native ontologies. This study reveals that kinship in the middle ages was not biological, primitive, or a regulator of social mechanisms; nor was it traceable by bio-genealogical connections. In the Middle Ages, kinship signified a sociality that flowed from convictions about the divine source of all things and which wove together families, institutions, and divinities into an expansive eschatological vision animated by 'the most righteous principle of love'.

Author : Karolina Czerska-Shaw,Marcin Galent,Bożena Gierat-Bieroń
Publisher : Göttingen University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9783863953829

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Visions and Revisions of Europe by Karolina Czerska-Shaw,Marcin Galent,Bożena Gierat-Bieroń Pdf

Visions and Revisions of Europe offers a multidisciplinary debate on the various political, social, and cultural issues that are at the heart of contemporary European discourse, with a focus on the relations between the so-called “New” and “Old” Europe. A range of possible scenarios for the future of the EU, as well as a discussion of the factors affecting current crises are at the forefront of the debate, which lead the reader to reflect upon often overlooked aspects of European integration, such as Germany’s hegemonic role in the Union, or historical narratives and myths that need to be deconstructed and critically analysed. Contemporary populist movements also play a key role, as do the often difficult processes of migration and EU mobility, which reveal the tensions, fears, and lines of exclusion in contemporary European societies. Finally, the role of values – namely an adherence to human rights and responsibility over the global social order – which in the 1970s was a cornerstone of EU discursive action and identity building, serves as a lasting point of reflection on the uncertain future of the EU’s axio-normative direction(s).

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Europe
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082696613

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Visions of Europe by Richard Kearney Pdf

Major international figures discuss the society and culture of a changing continent. One kind of Europe - the Europe of politics and economics - is changing fast. But left out of this equation is an aspect which goes to the very heart and mind of our times. This is the cultural question of Europe's vision of itself, and of the wider world beyond its frontiers. Richard Kearney's interviews with artists, historians and philosophers discuss the exciting network of images, interpretations and directions for an understanding of the multi-cultural European ideal.

Author : Takashi Shogimen,Vicki A. Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317001331

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Visions of Peace by Takashi Shogimen,Vicki A. Spencer Pdf

Visions of Peace: Asia and the West explores the diversity of past conceptualizations as well as the remarkable continuity in the hope for peace across global intellectual traditions. Current literature, prompted by September 11, predominantly focuses on the laws and ethics of just wars or modern ideals of peace. Asian and Western ideals of peace before the modern era have largely escaped scholarly attention. This book examines Western and Asian visions of peace that existed prior to c.1800 by bringing together experts from a variety of intellectual traditions. The historical survey ranges from ancient Greek thought, early Christianity and medieval scholasticism to Hinduism, classical Confucianism and Tokuguwa Japanese learning, before illuminating unfamiliar aspects of peace visions in the European Enlightenment. Each chapter offers a particular case study and attempts to rehabilitate a 'forgotten' conception of peace and reclaim its contemporary relevance. Collectively they provide the conceptual resources to inspire more creative thinking towards a new vision of peace in the present. Students and specialists in international relations, peace studies, history, political theory, philosophy, and religious studies will find this book a valuable resource on diverse conceptions of peace.

Author : Christa J. Olson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271062549

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Constitutive Visions by Christa J. Olson Pdf

In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments—as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity—struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador’s large indigenous population with the dominance of a white-mestizo minority. Even as indigenous people were excluded from civic life, images of them proliferated in speeches, periodicals, and artworks during Ecuador’s long process of nation formation. Tracing how that contradiction illuminates the textures of national-identity formation, Constitutive Visions places petitions from indigenous laborers alongside oil paintings, overlays woodblock illustrations with legislative debates, and analyzes Ecuador’s nineteen constitutions in light of landscape painting. Taken together, these juxtapositions make sense of the contradictions that sustained and unsettled the postcolonial nation-state.

Author : David Pinder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317972853

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Visions of the City by David Pinder Pdf

Visions of the City is a dramatic history of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes. The author critically examines influential utopian approaches to urbanism in western Europe associated with such figures as Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier, uncovering the political interests, desires and anxieties that lay behind their ideal cities. He also investigates avant-garde perspectives from the time that challenged these conceptions of cities, especially from within surrealism. At the heart of this richly illustrated book is an encounter with the explosive ideas of the situationists. Tracing the subversive practices of this avant-garde group and its associates from their explorations of Paris during the 1950s to their alternative visions based on nomadic life and play, David Pinder convincingly explains the significance of their revolutionary attempts to transform urban spaces and everyday life. He addresses in particular Constant's New Babylon, finding within his proposals a still powerful provocation to imagine cities otherwise. The book not only recovers vital moments from past hopes and dreams of modern urbanism. It also contests current claims about the 'end of utopia', arguing that reconsidering earlier projects can play a critical role in developing utopian perspectives today. Through the study of utopian visions, it aims to rekindle elements of utopianism itself. A superb critical exploration of the underside of utopian thought over the last hundred years and its continuing relevance in the here and now for thinking about possible urban worlds. The treatment of the Situationists and their milieu is a revelation. David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate School