Imagining Europe

By Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand

Book Overview

In Imagining Europe, Chiara Bottici and Beno t Challand explore the formation of modern European identity. Europe has not always been there, although we have been imagining it for quite some time. Even after the birth of a polity called the European Union, the meaning of Europe remained a very much contested topic. What is Europe? What are its boundaries? Is there a specific European identity or is the EU just the name for a group of institutions? This book answers these questions, showing that in Europe's formation, myth and memory, although distinct, are often merged in a common attempt to construct an identity for its present and its future. In a time when Europe is facing an existential crisis, when its meaning is being questioned, Imagining Europe explores a vital and often unacknowledged aspect of the European project.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107641640
• ISBN13: 9781107641648
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.9"