Formations of European Modernity A Historical and Political Sociology of Europe
This book presents a historical and political sociology of European history and society. It offers a critical interpretation of the course of European history looking at the emergence of the idea of Europe and the formation of modernity. Now fully updated, Delanty's second edition features comm...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2019 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- A Introduction: A Theoretical Framework
- Part 1 Sources of the Europe Heritage
- 1. The European Inter-Civilizational Constellation
- 2. The Greco-Roman and Judaic Legacies
- 3. Christianity in the Making of Europe
- 4. Between East and West: The Byzantine Legacy and Russia
- 5. The Islamic World and Islam in Europe
- Part 2 The Emergence of Modernity
- 6. The Renaissance and the Rise of European Consciousness
- 7. Unity and Divisions in Early modern European History: The Emergence of a Westernized Europe
- 8. The Enlightenment and the Idea of Europe
- 9. The Rise of the Nation-State and the Allure of Empire: Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
- 10. Europe as a World Historical Region: A Global Perspective on the European Formation of Modernity
- 11. The Historical Regions of Europe: Civilizational Backgrounds and Multiple Routes to Modernity
- 12. Europe in the Short Twentieth Century: Conflicting Projects of Modernity. Part 3 The Present and its Discontents
- 13. Europe since 1989: Globalization, Europeanization and the Crisis of the Nation-State in Late Modernity
- 14. Age of Austerity: Contradictions of Capitalism and Democracy and the Crisis of European Integration
- 15. 'The Centre Cannot Hold': The Return of Nationalism and the Specter of Authoritarian Democracy
- 16. Memory, Heritage and History: The European Heritage as a Conflict of Interpretations
- Conclusion: Europe - A Defence