"This is an important collection and starting point for the worthy
goal of promoting a better understanding of the past that makes it
less able to be manipulated for contemporary political and
religious aims...Compiled out of the European past, its aim of a
better understanding of traditional values ought to be useful for
contemporary cultures and for the work of scholars of all cultures
and continents." . Renaissance Quarterly
In the last decade or so, many books have been devoted to the
history of Europe.Two conceptual axes predominate in a large number
of these accounts: a discourse focusing on Europe's values, and
another discourse, fashioned largely in opposition to the first,
which emphasizes the process of European "construction." The first
conceives of Europe's past teleologically, as a process by which
certain values (Christian ethics, individualism, capitalism,
tolerance, republicanism, due process, etc.) were affirmed and came
to define European culture. The second approach rejects the
discourse on values emphasizes the post-Enlightenment emergence of
the concept of Europe, and the political and ideological
implications in its continuous redefinitions (and re elaborations)
during the past two or more centuries. This volume offers new
approaches that integrate the long temporal dimension of the
values-based approach, albeit devoid of its teleological element,
with the "constructivist" interpretation.
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