Reform, Revolution and Crisis in Europe: Landmarks in History, Memory and Thought

ISBN-13: 9781032086354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

Bronwyn Winter; Cat Moir

Opis

This interdisciplinary book considers, through the prism of several landmark moments, how the dynamics of reformation and revolution, and the crises they either addressed or created, have shaped European history, memory, and thought.

Spis treści

Introduction: (Hi)stories of Europe  Part I: Reform  1. Panorama 1989: The Political Aesthetics of the Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany  2. Reading the Signs of the Times: The Moravian Brothers’ Quiet Revolution  3. Missionary Letters: Authority, Masculinity and Reform  Part II: Revolution  4. Violence to Velvet: A Century of Revolutions – 1917 to 2017  5. A Revolutionary Approach to Physical Culture  6. "Periodise and Pass Beyond": Maoism as Marxism’s Third Period in Alain Badiou’s Theory of the Subject  Part III: Crisis  7. European Diplomacy in Crisis: Lessons from the Congress of Berlin of 1878  8. Madagascar 1947: Reform or Revolution?  9. Of the Duality of Crises: The 2008 Crisis as Consensual Economics and Divergent Discourses in the British Context  10. The Right to Asylum: One of the Great Contradictions of Modern European History.  Conclusion: (Hi)stories of Crisis

O autorze

Bronwyn Winter is Deputy Director of the European Studies program at the University of Sydney, where she also contributes to the International and Global Studies program.

Cat Moir is Senior Lecturer in Germanic Studies at the University of Sydney, where she also contributes to the European Studies program.