TY - BOOK AU - Adenauer,Konrad AU - Albrecht,Yoeri AU - Balladur,Édouard AU - Barnard,Benno AU - Berlin,Isaiah AU - Blom,Philipp AU - Ghervas,Stella AU - Havel,Václav AU - Holland,Tom AU - Konrád,György AU - Krastev,Ivan AU - Kundera,Milan AU - Mitterrand,François AU - Monnet,Jean AU - Nicolaïdis,Kalypso AU - Obama,Barack AU - Padoa-Schioppa,Tomasso AU - Schmidt,Helmut AU - Segers,Mathieu AU - Siedentop,Larry AU - Sternberg,Claudia AU - Thatcher,Margaret AU - de Gaulle,Charles TI - Re:Thinking Europe: Thoughts on Europe: Past, Present and Future SN - 9789462983151 PY - 2016///] CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Contemporary Society KW - Social and Political Sciences KW - HISTORY / Europe / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface: Re-creating Europe --; Introduction --; European Unity and its Vicissitudes --; Contemporary essays --; Homogeinity and Diversity --; On the Identity of the West --; The Cowardly Lion in Quest of Peace --; Afterglow of a Dead World --; Anatomy of Resentment --; Thinking Europe ‒ No Future? --; My EUtopia: Empathy in a Union of Others --; Culture and the EU's Struggle for Legitimacy --; Historical texts --; Thoughts on the Future --; Extracts from a speech in the Main Auditorium of Cologne University --; Extracts from a press conference --; The Tragedy of Central Europe --; The Bruges Speech --; Extracts from a speech in the European Parliament (1994) --; Extracts from a speech in the European Parliament (1995) --; The Special Quality of Europe is Culture --; The Europe of Melancholy --; New Alliances and Recomposition Logic --; Remarks to the Turkish Parliament --; Germany in and with and for Europe --; Biographies; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - What is Europe? This concise, yet immensely complex, question, more pressing than ever during this time of intense political crisis-the worst since the process of European integration began in the 1950s-sets the stage for this volume. Bringing together international thinkers and scholars from different generations, including Barack Obama, Margaret Thatcher, Milan Kundera, Tom Holland, Ivan Krastev, Philipp Blom, and many others, the essays engage with the paradoxes and puzzles of European identity, ultimately rethinking the continent's culture, history, present-and future UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048533084?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048533084 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048533084/original ER -