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Beskrivning
A host of prominent and influential thinkers such as political scientist Ivan Krastev and historians Philipp Blom and Adam Zamoyski have been invited to write essays. Their thoughts are assembled in the anthology Re:Thinking Europe.
Yoeri Albrecht is the director of De Balie in Amsterdam. He is also the president of Vereniging Veronica, owner of (among others) the Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau and co-initiator of the "European Press Prize". Mathieu Segers (1976) is Professor of Contemporary European History and European Integration at Maastricht University.
Innehållsförteckning
Preface: Re-creating Europe - Yori Albrecht Introduction - Mathieu Segers European Unity and its Vicissitudes (1959) - Isaiah Berlin CONTEMPORARY ESSAYS Homogeneity and Diversity - Tom Holland On the Identity of the West - Larry Siedentop The Cowardly Lion in Quest of Peace - Stella Ghervas Afterglow of a Dead World - Benno Barnard Anatomy of Resentment - Ivan Krastev Thinking Europe -- No Future? - Philip Blom My EUtopia: Empathy in a Union of Others - Kalypso Nicolaïdis Culture and the EU’s Struggle for Legitimacy - Claudia Sternberg HISTORICAL TEXTS Thoughts on the Future (1943) - Jean Monnet Extracts from a speech in the Main Auditorium of Cologne University (1946) - Konrad Adenauer Extracts from a press conference (1960) - Charles de Gaulle The Tragedy of Central Europe (1984) - Milan Kundera The Bruges Speech (1988) - Margaret Thatcher Extracts from a speech in the European Parliament (1994) - Václav Havel Extracts from a speech in the European Parliament (1995) - François Mitterrand The Special Quality of Europe is Culture (2001) - György Konrád The Europe of Melancholy (2006) - Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa New Alliances and Recomposition Logic (2008) - Édouard Balladur Remarks to the Turkish Parliament (2009) - Barack Obama Germany in and with and for Europe (2011) - Helmut Schmidt BIOGRAPHIES
