1st Edition

The European Heritage A Critical Re-Interpretation

By Gerard Delanty Copyright 2018
244 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Gerard Delanty offers a critical interpretation of the European heritage today in light of recent developments in the human and social sciences, and in view of a mood of crisis in Europe that compels us to re-think the European past. One of the main insights informing this book is that a transnational and global perspective on European history can reorient the European heritage in a direction... Read more

Preface and Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: The Past in the Present

Part I: Making Sense of a Transnational World

2. Transnationalism in Historical and Sociological Analysis

3. Modernity and the Plurality of Europe

4. Europe Unbounded: Critical Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Eurocentrism

Part II: Encounters, Routes, Transfers, and Entanglements

5. Cultural Encounters and European Civilisation

6. Europe and Modernity as Reference Cultures

7. The Making of European Society and the Entanglement of Capitalism and Democracy

8. The Legacy of European Integration: Europe in the World

Part III: Looking to the Future

9. Solidarity as a Political Legacy for Europe Today

10. Making Sense of Brexit: A Divided Nation in a Divided Europe

11. Europe Beyond the Crisis: Re-Inventing the European Heritage

Biography

Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. His other recent books include The Cosmopolitan Imagination (2009), Formations of European Modernity (2013), and Community (3rd edition 2014).