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Europe and Empire: On the Political Forms of Globalization
Massimo Cacciari
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Description for Europe and Empire: On the Political Forms of Globalization
Paperback. Assesses the current situation of Europe ten years after the adoption of the single currency. Examines the genealogy of the idea of Europe from the Greek confrontation with the Asia to the conflict between the Roman Empire and Christianity. Discusses the role of secularization in the shaping of modern Europe. Editor(s): Carrera, Alessandro. Translator(s): Verdicchio, Massimo. Series: Commonalities. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JPA; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 322.
The European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has known in the past thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in perpetual crisis about its global role. The many European empires are now reduced to a multiplicity of ethnicities, traditions, and civilizations. Europe will never be One, but to survive as a union it will have to become a federation of islands both distinct and connected. Though drawing on philosophers of Europe's past, Cacciari calls not to resist Europe's sunset but to embrace it. Europe will have to open up to the possibility that in few generations new exiles and an unpredictable cultural hybridism will again change all we know about the European legacy. Though scarcely alive in today's politics, the political unity of Europe is still a necessity, however impossible it seems to achieve.
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Commonalities
Condition
New
Weight
322g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823267170
SKU
V9780823267170
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About Massimo Cacciari
Massimo Cacciari has been Dean of Philosophy at the Universita San Raffaele in Milan and has served three times as mayor of Venice. He was also a member of the European Parliament in 1999. His books in English include Architecture and Nihilism, Posthumous People, The Necessary Angel, and The Unpolitical. Alessandro Carrera is Director of Italian Studies and Graduate Director of World Cultures & Literatures at the University of Houston. He has edited Italian Critical Theory (Annali d'Italianistica, 29), and Music and Society in Italy (Forum Italicum, 49). Massimo Verdicchio is professor of Italian and comparative literature at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Naming Things, Reading Dante Reading, and The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso.
Reviews for Europe and Empire: On the Political Forms of Globalization
Europe and Empire is both timely and insightful. Politician, activist, philosopher and teacher, Massimo Cacciari explores both the hopes and possibilities of a nascent European Union as well as its current demise as a serious world power. What do the idea and reality of Europe hold for philosophy, politics and globalization? This is the central question of the essays of this volume. With great erudition, rich political insight and sharp critical analysis, Cacciari leads readers to a deeper understanding of the aspirations and failures of Europe, all from a deeply philosophical perspective: Europe in its evening light must learn to see itself through the insufficiency of its own self-definitions, a project similar to the negative theology of thinkers like Nicholas of Cusa. Cacciari calls us to think Europe as an unpolitical community.
-Antonio Calcagno
King's University College, London, Canada
-Antonio Calcagno
King's University College, London, Canada