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Dans ce livre, des specialistes de disciplines diverses et de pays et de continents differents analysent ce qui est demeure implicite dans la creation et l'adoption de symboles et de mythes d'une Europe toujours en construction. La publication tend a evaluer le deficit symbolique presume de l'Union europeenne et de l'Europe et explore l'histoire et la signification de certains mythes et symboles de l'Europe d'aujourd'hui, comme le mythe de l'enlevement d'Europe, l'hymne et le drapeau europeens, la representation du continent, de meme que le sens que les experts ou les Europeens attribuent a l'euro. La nouvelle monnaie illustre la problematique du futur sentiment d'appartenance a l'Europe, qui necessitera une multiplication des echanges entre ses peuples et ses cultures pour donner lieu a une forme d'identite libre et multiculturelle. In this publication, scholars from various disciplines and from a dozen countries of Europe and other continents intend to make explicit what has remained implicit in the creation or adoption of symbols and myths for a Europe that is under construction. The book is devoted to assessing the supposed symbolic deficit of the European Union and of Europe as a whole. It analyses the history and meanings of some of the myths and symbols for Europe today, such as the myth of Europa and the bull, but also the European hymn and flag, and the representations of the continent. It also explores the meanings which have been attributed to the Euro by both experts and ordinary people; the new coin reminds us of the problematic nature of possible future senses of belonging to Europe, which will require exchanges between different peoples and cultures in order to give rise to an open and multicultural form of identity.

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Author:   Luisa Passerini ,  Bo Strath ,  Luisa Passerini
Publisher:   European Interuniversity Press
Imprint:   European Interuniversity Press
Volume:   22
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.310kg
ISBN:  

9789052011899

ISBN 10:   9052011893
Pages:   183
Publication Date:   26 June 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English & French

Table of Contents

Contenu/Contents: Romano Prodi: Preface/Preface - Luisa Passerini: Dimensions of the Symbolic in the Construction of Europeanness - Stuart Hall: In But Not of Europe: Europe and Its Myths - Hartmut Kaelble: European Symbols, 1945-2000: Concept, Meaning and Historical Change - Jacques-Rene Rabier: Tradition et resurgences d'un mythe: le ravissement d'Europe - Michael Rice: When Archetype Meets Archetype: The Bull and Europa - Esteban Buch: Parcours et paradoxes de l'hymne europeen - Yves Hersant: Douze etoiles d'or - Darby Lewes: The Site/Sight of Europa: Representations of Women in European Cartography - Jean-Michel Servet: L'euro: fenetres et ponts d'un nomadisme monetaire - Richard Waswo: The Fact (and Figures) of the Supreme Fiction - Suzanne Shanahan: Currency and Community: European Identity and the Euro.

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La responsable de la publication: Luisa Passerini dirige le groupe de recherche Europe: Emotions, Identites, Politiques au Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut d'Essen. Elle est egalement professeur d'histoire contemporaine a l'Universite de Turin et professeur invite a l'Institut universitaire europeen de Florence. The Editor: Luisa Passerini is Director of the research group Europe: Emotions, Identities, Politics at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen. She is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Torino and External Professor at the European University Institute, Florence.

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