The European Heritage: A Critical Re-Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9781138038714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 230 str.

Gerard Delanty

Opis

This book offers a critical interpretation of the European heritage for the present day. It shows that a transnational perspective on memory and European historical formation draws attention to processes of entanglement and that a focus on such forms of entanglement might be a basis for critical and comparative research on heritage. The book poses the question: is it possible for European societies - and Europe more generally - to create a transnational form of heritage that reflects transnational and entangled memories and identities?

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: The Past in the Present

Part I: Making Sense of a Transnational World

2. Transnationalism in Historical and Sociological Analysis

3. Modernity and the Plurality of Europe

4. Europe Unbounded: Critical Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Eurocentrism

Part II: Encounters, Routes, Transfers, and Entanglements

5. Cultural Encounters and European Civilisation

6. Europe and Modernity as Reference Cultures

7. The Making of European Society and the Entanglement of Capitalism and Democracy

8. The Legacy of European Integration: Europe in the World

Part III: Looking to the Future

9. Solidarity as a Political Legacy for Europe Today

10. Making Sense of Brexit: A Divided Nation in a Divided Europe

11. Europe Beyond the Crisis: Re-Inventing the European Heritage

O autorze

Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. His other recent books include The Cosmopolitan Imagination (2009), Formations of European Modernity (2013), and Community (3rd edition 2014).