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- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Sociology and the Heroism of Modern Life
- 2 Psychoanalysis: Freud and Beyond
- 3 Modern Physics: From Crisis to Crisis
- 4 Varieties of Phenomenology
- 5 Existentialism and the Meanings of Transcendence
- 6 Philosophies of Life
- 7 The Many Faces of Analytic Philosophy
- 8 American Ideas in the European Imagination
- 9 Revolution from the Right: Against Equality
- 10 Western Marxism: Revolutions in Theory
- 11 Anti-imperialism and Interregnum
- 12 Late Modern Feminist Subversions: Sex, Subjectivity, and Embodiment
- 13 Modernist Theologies: The Many Paths between God and World
- 14 Modern Economic Thought and the “Good Society”
- 15 Conservatism and Its Discontents
- 16 Modernity and the Specter of Totalitarianism
- 17 Decolonization Terminable and Interminable
- 18 Structuralism and the Return of the Symbolic
- 19 Post-structuralism: From Deconstruction to the Genealogy of Power
- 20 Contesting the Public Sphere: Within and against Critical Theory
- 21 Restructuring Democracy and the Idea of Europe
- Index
21 - Restructuring Democracy and the Idea of Europe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 August 2019
- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Sociology and the Heroism of Modern Life
- 2 Psychoanalysis: Freud and Beyond
- 3 Modern Physics: From Crisis to Crisis
- 4 Varieties of Phenomenology
- 5 Existentialism and the Meanings of Transcendence
- 6 Philosophies of Life
- 7 The Many Faces of Analytic Philosophy
- 8 American Ideas in the European Imagination
- 9 Revolution from the Right: Against Equality
- 10 Western Marxism: Revolutions in Theory
- 11 Anti-imperialism and Interregnum
- 12 Late Modern Feminist Subversions: Sex, Subjectivity, and Embodiment
- 13 Modernist Theologies: The Many Paths between God and World
- 14 Modern Economic Thought and the “Good Society”
- 15 Conservatism and Its Discontents
- 16 Modernity and the Specter of Totalitarianism
- 17 Decolonization Terminable and Interminable
- 18 Structuralism and the Return of the Symbolic
- 19 Post-structuralism: From Deconstruction to the Genealogy of Power
- 20 Contesting the Public Sphere: Within and against Critical Theory
- 21 Restructuring Democracy and the Idea of Europe
- Index
Summary
In March 1994, Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic, stepped in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg and issued a passionate plea for opening up the European Union (EU) toward the East. Nothing less was expected. What captured his audience, however, was his unexpectedly harsh criticism of the emotional poverty of European integration. In his speech, Havel called for an urgently needed “Charter of European Identity” that would clearly set out the ideas and values Europe was intended to embody. The Maastricht Treaty, which then had been in force for only three months, may have been a ground-breaking constitutional document setting out a daring institutional path toward integration. But it lacked an ethical dimension. The Treaty, Havel explained, had engaged his brain, but failed to address his heart.
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- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought , pp. 545 - 568Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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