The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union

by Edited by Anthony Pagden

• ISBN13: 9780521795524
• ISBN10: 0521795524
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-22
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The creation of the European Union and the progressive integration of the European states has raised serious questions about the existence of a distinctive European identity. Do the British share much in common with the French, or the French with the Danes? Will a unified Europe remain an economic and political possibility with no greater cultural or affective foundations? If there is something that distinguishes all Europeans, what is it, and how is it being changed by recent events? This book addresses these questions in essays ranging from ancient Greece to the end of the twentieth century. Their authors come from different intellectual backgrounds and represent differing intellectual traditions. They discuss questions of politics, religion, commerce, law, language, literature and affectivity. Taken together, they provide a powerful insight into the historical origins of the idea of Europe and into the future of the European Union.

Author Biography

Anthony Pagden is a professor of history and political science at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of many books on the history of European social and political thought and of Europe's links to the non-European world

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(32)
Anthony Pagden
Europe: Conceptualizing a Continent	33	(22)
Anthony Pagden
Some Europes in Their History	55	(17)
J. G. A. Pocock
``Europe'' in the Middle Ages	72	(19)
William Chester Jordan
The Republican Mirror: The Dutch Idea of Europe	91	(25)
Hans W. Blom
The Napoleonic Empire and the Europe of Nations	116	(13)
Biancamaria Fontana
Homo Politicus and Homo Oeconomicus: The European Citizen According to Max Weber	129	(10)
Wilfried Nippel
The European Self: Rethinking an Attitude	139	(32)
Michael Herzfeld
European Nationalism and European Union	171	(20)
Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia
From the Ironies of Identity to the Identities of Irony	191	(18)
Luisa Passerini
Muslims and European Identity: Can Europe Represent Islam?	209	(19)
Tala Asad
The Long Road to Unity: The Contribution of Law to the Process of European Integration since 1945	228	(32)
Philip Ruttley
The Euro, Economic Federalism, and the Question of National Sovereignty	260	(27)
Elie Cohen
Identity Politics and European Integration: The Case of Germany	287	(30)
Thomas Risse
Daniela Engelmann-Martin
Nationalisms in Spain: The Organization of Convivencia	317	(14)
Andres de Blas Guerrero
The Kantian Idea of Europe: Critical and Cosmopolitan Perspectives	331	(28)
James Tully
Contributors	359	(4)
Index	363