Engaging Europe: Rethinking a Changing ContinentEvlyn Gould, George J. Sheridan What and where and who is Europe? This unique collection contends that Europe cannot be defined as simply a particular geographic location or a group of citizens who inhabit the same place and share a culture. Instead, Europe is a question to be answered by the teachers and students who study it. A collaborative and multidisciplinary collection, Engaging Europe explores Europe through history, literature, philosophy, music, and ethical narratives. A set of imaginative contributors investigates European identity through a variety of cases, including Greece and Rome, the Bible, the Enlightenment, and the Shoah. Scholars of literature, history, and classics, as well as a composer, grapple with students' doubts about Europe's future relevance. The complexity of the topic leads to creativity in each chapter, from a musical composition in words to poetry to a dialogue between Baudelaire and Adam Smith. Engaging Europe is a major part of an experiment that hopes to find more intellectually exciting ways to teach Europe to students in American higher education. Contributions by: Evlyn Gould, Joseph Krause, Robert Kyr, Massimo Lollini, Alexander B. Murphy, John Nicols, Steven Shankman, George J. Sheridan Jr., and Malcolm Wilson |
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... fact that today's stars , visible or invisible , have changed in nature and do not transmit messages of peace . The stars are no longer a symbol of poetry and love for they send disquieting and controversial mes- sages . They have ...
... fact that today's stars , visible or invisible , have changed in nature and do not transmit messages of peace . The stars are no longer a symbol of poetry and love for they send disquieting and controversial mes- sages . They have ...
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... fact , it is to a large degree what is intended by the phrase " Western rationality " -— that is , the intellectual habit of isolating a subject , dividing it into its species and elements , and explaining the rela- tionships among ...
... fact , it is to a large degree what is intended by the phrase " Western rationality " -— that is , the intellectual habit of isolating a subject , dividing it into its species and elements , and explaining the rela- tionships among ...
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... fact , improvement of productive power , specifically through the division of labor - of which both specialized activity in a pin factory and the most sophisticated new techniques of production are instances — can happen in multiple ...
... fact , improvement of productive power , specifically through the division of labor - of which both specialized activity in a pin factory and the most sophisticated new techniques of production are instances — can happen in multiple ...
Contents
What Is Europe? | 27 |
The Idea of Europe Levinas and Shakespeares | 63 |
Where Is Europe? | 81 |
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