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Discourses and Counter-discourses on Europe: From the Enlightenment to the EU book cover

1st Edition

Discourses and Counter-discourses on Europe From the Enlightenment to the EU

Edited By Manuela Ceretta, Barbara Curli Copyright 2017
284 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The European Union plays an increasingly central role in global relations from migration to trade to institutional financial solvency. The formation and continuation of these relations – their narratives and discourses - are rooted in social, political, and economic historical relations emerging at the founding of European states and then substantially augmented in the Post-WWII era. Any... Read more

Introduction: Rescuing Europe from its Rhetoric

Manuela Ceretta and Barbara Curli

Part I: Thinking and Regretting Europe

Introduction to Part I

1. Thinking Europe in the Age of Enlightenment: philosophes and antiphilosophes between Universalism and Fragmentation

Patrizia Delpiano

2. Evoking Europe against the French Revolution: the Rhetorical Tools of Counter-revolutionary Thinkers

Manuela Ceretta

3. Discourses on Europe and their Political Value in Restoration France

Giuseppe Sciara

Part II: The Burden of Rhetoric: inside the European Institutions

Introduction to Part II

4. A European Framework for Military Institutions? International Integration and European Perspectives in Military Rhetorics after the Second World War

Marco Di Giovanni

5. Nuclear Europe: Technoscientific Modernity and European Integration in Euratom’s Early Discourse

Barbara Curli

6. Parliamentary Groups and Political Traditions in the Debates on EU Institutional Reform (1979-1999)

Paolo Caraffini and Filippo Maria Giordano

7. The Political Groups of the European Parliament in the Face of Yugoslavia's Disintegration and the Discursive Framing of EU Foreign Policy (1991-1995)

Giovanni Finizio and Umberto Morelli

Part III: Communicating Europe

Introduction to Part III

8. The Alter-globalist Counter-discourse in European Rhetoric and Translation: Women’s Rights at the European Parliament

Maria Cristina Caimotto and Rachele Raus

9. Europe in the Media Space: The Construction of the EU Public Sphere in Italy

Marinella Belluati and Cristopher Cepernich

10. ISIS’ Dabiq Communicative Strategies, NATO and Europe: Who is Learning from Whom?

Michelangelo Conoscenti

11. Changing Perceptions of the European Union in the MENA Region before and after the Arab Uprisings: the Case of Tunisia

Rosita Di Peri and Federica Zardo

Biography

Manuela Ceretta is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Turin, Italy. She is a member of the Scientific Board of Studi Irlandesi, A Journal of Irish Studies and of the Editorial Board of Storia del Pensiero politico.

Barbara Curli is Professor of Contemporary History and Global History at the University of Turin, Italy. She was Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration at the University of Calabria, Italy, and Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Italian History at Georgetown University, USA; and Editor-in-chief (2011-2014) of Il Mestiere di storico .

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