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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Page 103
... past long since " lost " but nonetheless still full of grandeur -- a past ever pres- ent , even if not consciously admitted . Can anyone not be moved by the idea of three centuries of peace in Eu- rope ? By the massive public works ...
... past long since " lost " but nonetheless still full of grandeur -- a past ever pres- ent , even if not consciously admitted . Can anyone not be moved by the idea of three centuries of peace in Eu- rope ? By the massive public works ...
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... past becomes a blank space of hesitation open to a multitude of unique and individual accounts . How can we be responsible to all of the possible accounts of the past — to all of those other headings — when our writing of history tends ...
... past becomes a blank space of hesitation open to a multitude of unique and individual accounts . How can we be responsible to all of the possible accounts of the past — to all of those other headings — when our writing of history tends ...
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... past ? Or is the past being avoided ? Are Eu- ropeans today following the same mental acrobatics that many French em- ployed to avoid confronting the period of German occupation and collabo- ration during World War II ? Are a few ...
... past ? Or is the past being avoided ? Are Eu- ropeans today following the same mental acrobatics that many French em- ployed to avoid confronting the period of German occupation and collabo- ration during World War II ? Are a few ...
Contents
What Is Europe? | 27 |
The Idea of Europe Levinas and Shakespeares | 63 |
Where Is Europe? | 81 |
Copyright | |
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