Europe and empire :: on the political forms of globalization /

"Assesses the current situation of Europe ten years after the adoption of the single currency. Examines the genealogy of the idea of Europe from the Greek confrontation with the Asia to the conflict between the Roman Empire and Christianity. Discusses the role of secularization in the shaping o...

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1. Verfasser: Cacciari, Massimo (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Carrera, Alessandro (HerausgeberIn), Verdicchio, Massimo, 1945- (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Italian
Veröffentlicht: New York : Fordham University Press, [2016]
Ausgabe:First edition.
Schriftenreihe:Commonalities.
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Zusammenfassung:"Assesses the current situation of Europe ten years after the adoption of the single currency. Examines the genealogy of the idea of Europe from the Greek confrontation with the Asia to the conflict between the Roman Empire and Christianity. Discusses the role of secularization in the shaping of modern Europe"--
"The European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has known in the past thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in perpetual crisis about its global role. The many European empires are now reduced to a multiplicity of ethnicities, traditions, and civilizations. Europe will never be One, but to survive as a union it will have to become a federation of 'islands' both distinct and connected. Though drawing on philosophers of Europe's past, Cacciari calls not to resist Europe's sunset but to embrace it. Europe will have to open up to the possibility that in few generations new exiles and an unpredictable cultural hybridism will again change all we know about the European legacy. Though scarcely alive in today's politics, the political unity of Europe is still a necessity, however impossible it seems to achieve"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (214 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index.
ISBN:9780823267200
0823267202
9780823267194
0823267199

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