✍ Scribed by Chiara Bottici
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In Imagining Europe, Chiara Bottici and Benoît 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.
Contents
List of Figures, Tables, and Graphs
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
part i. memory and identity
1 Europe, Identity, and Legitimacy
2 European Identity and the Politics of Remembrance
3 East and West: Divided Memories in a United Europe
part ii. myth and identity
4 Myths of Europe
5 Europe’s Significant Others: The Cold War and Beyond
6 From Hammer and Sickle to Crescent
Conclusion
Bibliography
index
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