Europe in Crisis : : Intellectuals and the European Idea, 1917-1957 / / ed. by Mark Hewitson, Matthew D’Auria.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Burgess, Michael,; Cotesta, Vittorio,; Dini, Vittorio,; Ducci, Annamaria,; D’Auria, Matthew,; Gusejnova, Dina,; Hewitson, Mark,; Mikołajewski, Łukasz,; Prettenthaler-Ziegerhofer, Anita,; Richard, Anne-Isabelle,; Schonfield, Ernest,; Untea, Ionut,; Vermeiren, Jan,; Wintle, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: D’Auria, Matthew,; Hewitson, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community. During this time of 'crisis,' many contemporaries, especially intellectuals, felt they faced a momentous decision which could bring about a radically different future. The understanding of what Europe was and what it should be was questioned in a profound way, forcing Europeans to react. The idea of a specifically European unity finally became, at least for some, a feasible project, not only to avoid another war but to avoid the destruction of the idea of European unity. This volume reassesses the relationship between ideas of Europe and the European project and reconsiders the impact of long and short-term political transformations on assumptions about the continent’s scope, nature, role and significance.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction EUROPE DURING THE FORTY YEARS’ CRISIS -- Part I PROLOGUE -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE The European Question in the 1920s -- Chapter 2 EUROPE AND THE FATE OF THE WORLD Crisis and Integration in the Late 1940s and 1950s -- Chapter 3 INVENTING EUROPE AND REINVENTING THE NATION-STATE IN A NEW WORLD ORDER -- Part II REIMAGINING THE PAST -- Introduction -- Chapter 4 RICHARD NIKOLAUS COUDENHOVE-KALERGI, FOUNDER OF THE PAN-EUROPEAN UNION, AND THE BIRTH OF A ‘NEW’ EUROPE -- Chapter 5 NOBLE CONTINENT? German-Speaking Nobles as Theorists of European Identity in the Interwar Period -- Chapter 6 IMPERIUM EUROPAEUM Rudolf Pannwitz and the German Idea of Europe -- Chapter 7 NEW MIDDLE AGES OR NEW MODERNITY? Carl Schmitt’s Interwar Perspective on Political Unity in Europe -- Chapter 8 ROSENZWEIG, SCHMITT AND THE CONCEPT OF EUROPE -- Chapter 9 FROM CENTRE TO PROVINCE Changing Images of Europe in the Writings of Jerzy Stempowski -- Part III MAKING SENSE OF THE PRESENT -- Introduction -- Chapter 10 VISUALIZING EUROPE FROM 1900 TO THE 1950s Identity on the Move -- Chapter 11 EUROPE AND THE ARTISTIC PATRIMONY OF THE INTERWAR PERIOD The International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation at the League of Nations -- Chapter 12 HUIZINGA, INTELLECTUAL COOPERATION AND THE SPIRIT OF EUROPE, 1933–1945 -- Chapter 13 THE IDEA OF EUROPEAN UNITY IN HEINRICH MANN’S POLITICAL ESSAYS OF THE 1920s AND EARLY 1930s -- Chapter 14 LUCIEN FEBVRE AND THE IDEA OF EUROPE -- Part IV LOOKING TO THE FUTURE -- Introduction -- Chapter 15 JUNIUS AND THE ‘PRESIDENT PROFESSOR’ Luigi Einaudi’s European Federalism -- Chapter 16 FEDERATE OR PERISH The Continuity and Persistence of the Federal Idea in Europe, 1917–1957 -- Conclusion EUROPE BETWEEN A CRISIS OF CULTURE AND POLITICAL REGENERATION -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX