European Self-Reflection Between Politics and

Building on the German cultural analyst Siegfried Kracauer, the Italian microhistorian Carlo Ginzburg took up the idea of working with various optical perspectives from close ups to long shots. Employing this differentiated approach to cultural studies, the book suggests a fresh approach to the intertwining of political and religious agonies in the period 1914-1991. In fact, the long 'European civil war' with two world wars and a cold war marked a paradigm shift decisively changing Europe's attitudes and ways of relating to the world. What characterises Europe is that far from being formed by a one-track development of progress and emancipation, it has followed several tracks or fault lines, creating a number of dualities and contrasts in the European self-perception such as those between secularisation and religion, and between democratic and authoritarian forms of government. The present book seeks to clarify how the 'European civil war' arose, revolving, as it did, round the fundamental question: what should Europe be?

LARS K. BRUUN works primarily with the rise of Christianity and its influence on Western Culture in general. Publications on Nietzsche and Heidegger as interpreters of Pauline Christianity and on Protestantism in the US from the Founding Fathers to the rise of fundamentalism in the 20th century.

KARL CHRISTIAN LAMMERS works primarily with German contemporary history, especially history of Nazism and the two German states after 1945. He also works with European history in the 20th century.

GERT SØRENSEN works within the broader field of Italian Studies taking up the questions not only of how Italian cultural identities were formed during the centuries from the late Middle-Ages and the Renaissance to the building of the Italian Nation-State in the 19th century, Mussolini's Fascism and further on to the First democratic Republic after World War II, and the Berlusconi-period, but also of how to theoretically grasp this sort of compact and discontinuous history of an important part of Europe.

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European Self-Reflection Between Politics and Religion The Crisis of Europe in the 20th Century

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