Discourses and Counter-discourses on Europe: From the Enlightenment to the EU / Edition 1

by Manuela Ceretta, Barbara Curli

Overview

The book contributes to the ongoing process of "rethinking" the European project, identity, and institutions, brought about by the end of the Cold war and the current economic and political crisis. Starting from the principle that the present European crisis goes hand in hand with the crisis of its hegemonic discourse, the aim of the volume is to rescue the complexity, the richness, the ambiguity of the discourses on Europe as opposed to the present simplification.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138640726
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/19/2017
Series:	Critical European Studies
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Manuela Ceretta is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Turin, Italy. She is a member of the Scientific Board of Studi Irlandesi, A Journal of Irish Studies and of the Editorial Board of Storia del Pensiero politico.

Barbara Curli is Professor of Contemporary History and Global History at the University of Turin, Italy. She was Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration at the University of Calabria, Italy, and Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Italian History at Georgetown University, USA; and Editor-in-chief (2011-2014) of Il Mestiere di storico .

Table of Contents

Introduction: Rescuing Europe from its Rhetoric

Part I: Thinking and Regretting Europe

Introduction to Part I

1. Thinking Europe in the Age of Enlightenment: philosophes and antiphilosophes between Universalism and Fragmentation

2. Evoking Europe against the French Revolution: the Rhetorical Tools of Counter-revolutionary Thinkers

3. Discourses on Europe and their Political Value in Restoration France

Part II: The Burden of Rhetoric: inside the European Institutions

Introduction to Part II

4. A European Framework for Military Institutions? International Integration and European Perspectives in Military Rhetorics after the Second World War

5. Nuclear Europe: Technoscientific Modernity and European Integration in Euratom’s Early Discourse

6. Parliamentary Groups and Political Traditions in the Debates on EU Institutional Reform (1979-1999)

7. The Political Groups of the European Parliament in the Face of Yugoslavia's Disintegration and the Discursive Framing of EU Foreign Policy (1991-1995)

Part III: Communicating Europe

Introduction to Part III

8. The Alter-globalist Counter-discourse in European Rhetoric and Translation: Women’s Rights at the European Parliament

9. Europe in the Media Space: The Construction of the EU Public Sphere in Italy

10. ISIS’ Dabiq Communicative Strategies, NATO and Europe: Who is Learning from Whom?

11. Changing Perceptions of the European Union in the MENA Region before and after the Arab Uprisings: the Case of Tunisia