Decentering European intellectual space / / edited by Marja Jalava, Stefan Nygard, Johan Strang.

• Superior document: European studies : an interdisciplinary series in European culture, history and politics, Volume 35
• TeilnehmendeR: Jalava, Marja,; Nygård, Stefan,; Strang, Johan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: European studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; Volume 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (307 pages).

Decentering European Intellectual Space challenges the conventional view of intellectual history as a debate over the interpretation of a limited number of texts produced by a small group of prominent scholars, writers, and intellectuals from the cultural centers of Europe. Addressing the question “What is European intellectual space?”, this collection of essays seeks to demonstrate how this space is shaped, ordered, and communicated between Europe’s fluctuating cores and peripheries. Focusing on the asymmetrical relations between large and small, centers and peripheries, cores and margins, in scholarly and other forms of interaction – and within Europe as well as globally – the volume brings forth a variety of trajectories and strategies developed by intellectuals outside the culturally dominant centers. Contributors are: David Cottington, Narve Fulsås, Tommaso Giordani, Marja Jalava, Zsófia Lórand, Łukasz Mikołajewski, Diana Mishkova, Stefan Nygård, Emilia Palonen, Manolis Patiniotis, Johanna Rainio-Niemi, Tore Rem, José María Rosales, and Johan Strang.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- At the Periphery of European Intellectual Space / Stefan Nygård , Johan Strang and Marja Jalava -- Reconsidering European Intellectual Space -- Facing Asymmetry: Nordic Intellectuals and Center–Periphery Dynamics / Stefan Nygård and Johan Strang -- From Periphery to Center: The Origins and Worlding of Ibsen’s Drama / Narve Fulsås and Tore Rem -- The Transnational Hierarchies and Networks of the Artistic Avant-garde circa 1885–1915 / David Cottington -- Redefining Historical Materialism in the Peripheries of Marxism: Georges Sorel and Antonio Labriola between France, Italy, and Germany / Tommaso Giordani -- Negotiating the Center -- Repositioning Spain: The Political and Intellectual Involvements of Azaña and Ortega / José María Rosales -- Spatial Asymmetries: Regionalist Intellectual Projects in East Central Europe in the Interwar Period / Diana Mishkova -- European Small-State Academics and the Rise of the United States as an Intellectual Center: The Cases of Halvdan Koht and Heikki Waris / Marja Jalava and Johanna Rainio-Niemi -- Practicing “Europe”: Georg Lukács, Ágnes Heller, and the Budapest School / Emilia Palonen -- Cold War Dynamics -- Greece, Europe, and the Making of the Enlightenment in the Periphery / Manolis Patiniotis -- Europe, West and East, and the Polish Émigré Writers from Kultura: Five Stories about Asymmetry / Łukasz Mikołajewski -- Feminist Intellectuals: From Yugoslavia, in Europe / Zsófia Lóránd -- Back Matter -- Index.