Memory and Utopia

Luisa Passerini, recipient of the 2002-2004 Research Prize of the Land of Nordrhein-Westfalen, is Director of the research group "Europe: Emotions, Identities, Politics" at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turin and External Professor of History of the Twentieth Century at the European University Institut, Florence. Among her recent publications are Europe in Love, Love in Europe: Imagination and Politics in Britain between the Wars (IB Tauris, London 1999 and New York Univeristy Press, 2000), Memoria e utopia: Il primato dell'intersoggettivita (Bollati-Boringhieri, Torino 2003) and Figures d'Europe: Images and Myths of Europe (Peter Lang-Presses Inter-universitaries Europeennes, Bruxelles 2003).

• Introduction: The Primacy of Inter-Subjectivity Part I: The Past, and Historical Research. 1. Memories Between Silence and Oblivion 2. Becoming a Subject in the Time of the Death of the Subject 3. "Utopia" and Desire Part II: The Present, and the Sense of Belonging 4. From the ironies of identity to the identities of irony 5. The Last Identification: Why Some of Us Would Like to Call Ourselves Europeans and What We Mean by This