Discourses and Counter-discourses on Europe: From the Enlightenment to the EU (Critical European Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367173700 ISBN 13: 9780367173708

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

The European Union plays an increasingly central role in global relations from migration to trade to institutional financial solvency. The formation and continuation of these relations – their narratives and discourses - are rooted in social, political, and economic historical relations emerging at the founding of European states and then substantially augmented in the Post-WWII era. Any rethinking of our European narratives requires a contextualized analysis of the formation of hegemonic discourses.

The book contributes to the ongoing process of "rethinking" the European project, identity, and institutions, brought about by the end of the Cold war and the current economic and political crisis. Starting from the principle that the present European crisis goes hand in hand with the crisis of its hegemonic discourse, the aim of the volume is to rescue the complexity, the richness, the ambiguity of the discourses on Europe as opposed to the present simplification. The multidisciplinary approach and the long-term perspective permits illuminating scope over multiple discourses, historical periods, and different "languages", including that of the European institutions.

This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, European integration, European History, and more broadly international relations.

About this title

About the Author

Manuela Ceretta is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Turin, Italy. She is a member of the Scientific Board of Studi Irlandesi, A Journal of Irish Studies and of the Editorial Board of Storia del Pensiero politico.

Barbara Curli is Professor of Contemporary History and Global History at the University of Turin, Italy. She was Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration at the University of Calabria, Italy, and Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Italian History at Georgetown University, USA; and Editor-in-chief (2011-2014) of Il Mestiere di storico .

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367173700
• ISBN 13: 9780367173708
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Ceretta Manuela, Curli Barbara