Anti-liberal Europe

A Neglected Story of Europeanization
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-425-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

Reihe: New German Historical Perspectives

The history of modern Europe is often presented with the hindsight of present-day European integration, which was a genuinely liberal project based on political and economic freedom. Many other visions for Europe developed in the 20th century, however, were based on an idea of community rooted in pre-modern religious ideas, cultural or ethnic homogeneity, or even in coercion and violence. They frequently rejected the idea of modernity or reinterpreted it in an antiliberal manner. Anti-liberal Europe examines these visions, including those of anti-modernist Catholics, conservatives, extreme rightists as well as communists, arguing that antiliberal concepts in 20th-century Europe were not the counterpart to, but instead part of the process of European integration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gosewinkel, Dieter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Part I: Concepts

Chapter 1. Anti-liberal Europe: A Neglected Source of Europeanism. Introduction

Dieter Gosewinkel

Chapter 2. The Elusiveness of European (Anti-)liberalism

Michael Freeden

Part II: Antiliberalism: a feature of colonial and conservative concepts of Europe

Chapter 3. Europe as a Colonial Project: A Critique of Its Anti-liberalism

Fabian Klose

Chapter 4. Facing the Future Backwards. ‘Abendland’ as an Anti-liberal Idea of Europe in Germany between the First World War and the 1960s

Vanessa Conze

Chapter 5. The Call for a New European Order: Origins and Variants of the Anti-liberal Concept of the “Europe of the Regions”

Undine Ruge

Part III: Antiliberal Europe in dictatorships and their aftermath

Chapter 6. The ‘New European Order’ of National Socialism. Some Remarks on Its Sources, Genesis and Manifestations

Jürgen Elvert

Chapter 7. Three Kinds of Collaboration: Concepts of Europe and the ’Franco-German Understanding’ – The Career of SS_Brigadeführer Gustav Krukenberg

Peter Schöttler

Chapter 8. Communist Europeanism: A Case Study of the GDR

Jana Wuestenhagen

Afterword: The Limits of an Anti-liberal Europe

Martin Conway

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gosewinkel, Dieter
Dieter Gosewinkel is Professor of Modern History at the Freie Universität Berlin, and researcher and co-director of the Rule of Law Center at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). His recent books include Die Verfassungen in Europa 1789 - 1949: Eine wissenschaftliche Textedition (co-edited with Johannes Masing and Andreas Würschinger 2006) and Wissenschaft, Politik, Verfassungsgericht (with Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde 2011).