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Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory, And Identity - Softcover

Bottici, Chiara

 
9781107641648: Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory, And Identity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1107641640 ISBN 13: 9781107641648
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

In Imagining Europe, Chiara Bottici and Benoit Challand explore the formation of modern European identity. Europe has not always been there, although we have been imagining it for quite some time. Even after the birth of a polity called the European Union, the meaning of Europe remained a very much contested topic. What is Europe? What are its boundaries? Is there a specific European identity or is the EU just the name for a group of institutions? This book answers these questions, showing that in Europe's formation, myth and memory, although distinct, are often merged in a common attempt to construct an identity for its present and its future. In a time when Europe is facing an existential crisis, when its meaning is being questioned, Imagining Europe explores a vital and often unacknowledged aspect of the European project.

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About the Author

Chiara Bottici is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of A Philosophy of Political Myth (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Men and States: Rethinking the Domestic Analogy in a Global Age (2009). She is co-author (with Benoit Challand) of The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations (2010) and co-editor (with Benoit Challand) of The Politics of Imagination (2011). Benoit Challand is Assistant Professor in the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. He is the author of Palestinian Civil Society: Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude (2009). He is co-author (with Chiara Bottici) of The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations (2010) and co-editor (with Chiara Bottici) of The Politics of Imagination (2011).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107641640
ISBN 13 
9781107641648
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
220