Just when the idea of Europe that borderless common ground where peace and good life were granted vanishes due to neoliberal crises, xenophobia, and austerity policies, Martin-Estudillo's brilliant, wise, and provocative book analyzes the complexities and ambiguities of the European project from Spain's perspective."" Germán Labrador, Princeton University""As the EU searches for new narratives, Luis Martin-Estudillo has written a brilliant and necessary book that questions Spanish approaches to Europe as Arcadia and explores later disillusions and frustrations. In this ambitious, intelligent, reflexive, and extremely well-informed work, Martin-Estudillo traces conflicts previous to the current crisis, depicting a succession of diverse sometimes opposing testimonies throughout Spanish thought of the past eighty years, including acute visual examples. He provides a means to rethink not only discourses on Europe and Spain, but also the very construction of Spanishness as masquerade."" - Estrella de Diego, Universidad Complutense de Madrid""At once timely and historically grounded, Luis Martin-Estudillo's compelling study of Spanish 'Euroskepticism' addresses two interlocking, yet at times contrastive, formations: the nation state of Spain and the supranational state of Europe. In both cases, one more naturalized than the other, dreams of unity, diversity, and openness, of peaceful and productive cooperation and communication, are buckled by nightmares of disunity, homogeneity, and closure, of predatory and destructive competition and noncommunication. Reviewing an impressive array of Spanish literary, cultural, political, and philosophical texts on Spain and Europe from the late nineteenth century to the present, Martin-Estudillo grapples with such pressing issues as welfare, migration, xenophobia, conflict, representation, dissent, and the politics of location and mobility, belonging, and difference. Written with verve, rigor, discernment, and clarity, The Rise of Euroskepticism makes an important contribution to one of the burning questions of modern times."" - Brad Epps, University of Cambridge
