European Culture in a Changing World : Between Nationalism and Globalism
In the words of Ezra Talmor: To deal with European Culture in a Changing World is to deal, in fact, with the reciprocal relation between Politics and Economics on the one hand, and Culture on the other. In an era when economic forces are pushing towards European Economic Unity or towards the Globalisation of National Markets it is rather difficult to demarcate the role of Culture. While the European Narrative may have been written by Monnet, De Gaulle, and Adenauer, the Global Narrative is written by an unknown author or rather by Adam Smith's Invisible Hand. On the one hand the postmodernist claim that the Grand Narrative is dead is given the lie. A Grand Narrative is now being written not by Philosophers but by Managers of Multinationals. The Foucauldian "ca parle" (it speaks) is instantiated by the anonymous authors of the Global Narrative. The question to be asked is: What will happen to the rich mosaic of National European Cultures? The answer to this question is not only a matter of National Memory and National Identity, it is also a matter of the sources of cultural creativity. L'Europe de nations may have been the theatre of endless national wars but it was also the cradle
Print Book, English, 2004
Cambridge Scholars Press, Buckinghamshire, 2004
275 s
9781904303336, 1904303331
474282165
Section 1: Politics And Economy; Chapter One: Nicholas Perdikis, Shari L. Boyd, William A Kerr; Multinationals, Biotechnology, Intellectual Property Rights; and Developing Countries
Should Developing Countries; Seek to Be Exploited? ... 1; Chapter Two: Sylvia MacPhee; Who is an Italian: Italy's Struggle for National Identity ... 11; Chapter Three: Marcela Cristi; Theoretical Remarks on Civil Religion and Politics: A Comparative Perspective ... 22; Chapter Four: Anu Randveer and Martti Randveer; Sectoral Convergence ... 46; Chapter Five: Viljar Jaamu and Vello Vensel; Bank Performance and Efficiency in a Small Open Economy; on the Threshold of the European Union ... 56; Section 2: Philosophy; Chapter Six: Anatoly Zotov; Hermeneutics as Ontology of Contemporary Society ... 68; Chapter Seven: Warren Breckman; Emancipation and the Bounds of Meaning: Reading, Representation and Politics in Young Hegelianism ... 75; Chapter Eight: Douglas Moggach; Republican Rigorism: Hegelian Views of Emancipation in 1848 ... 86; Chapter Nine: Malgorzata Bogunia-Borowska; Social and Cultural Functions of Advertising Transmission; in Consumption Society ... 96; Chapter Ten: Alexandros Kioupkiolis; Theorising the Freedom
Equality Nexus From the Standpoints; of Deliberative and Agonistic Democracy ... 105; Chapter Eleven: Eric W. Ruckh; Theorizing Globalization: At the Intersection of Bataille's; Solar Economy, DeLillo's Underworld and Hardt's and; Negri's Empire ... 117; Chapter Twelve: Avron Kulak; Descartes and the Infinity of the Other ... 140; Chapter Thirteen: Kevin P. Spicer; Antisemitism, Nationalism, and the Commandments: Catholic; Clergy in Berlin during the Third Reich
Their Experience; and its Meaning for Today's Church ... 152; Section 3: Literature And The Arts; Chapter Fourteen: Bernard Zelechow; Identity and Erasure: W.G. Sebald's Fictions ... 164; Chapter Fifteen: Dorothy M. Betz; Arnold, Mallarme, New Worlds to be Born and the Redefinition; of