European Identity and the Second World War

by Michael J. Wintle, Menno Spiering, Michael Wintle

Book Overview

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Ideals, Identity and War: the Idea of Europe, 1939-70; M.Wintle PART I: WORLD WAR II, EUROPE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Human Rights and European Identity since World War II: Vergangenheitsbew?ltigung through Law; H.Porsdam Before Integration: Human Rights and Post-war Europe; H.Schulz-Forberg From War Talk to Rights Talk: Exile Politics, Human Rights, and the Two World Wars; J.Winter PART II: REFLECTIONS: NARRATIVES OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION AND WORLD WAR II Myth and History in European Post-War History Writing; J.Ifversen From Nazi Legacy to Cold War: British Perceptions of European Identity, 1945-5; W.Webster The Nordic Way Out: Europe in Danish Literature after the Second World War; H.van der Liet 'Europe is the Country of the Spirit': Albert Camus and Europeanism in France, 1944-47; M.van Montfrans PART III: VISIONS: PLANS FOR A NEW EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II The Ventotene Manifesto: the Crisis of the Nation State and the Political Identity of Europe; M.D'Auria Max Kohnstamm's New Europe; A.van Heerikhuizen Atoms for Europe; M.Spiering Before Self-Reflexivity: Imperialism and Colonialism in the Early Discourses of European Integration; W.Schmale PART IV: SHOAH, WAR AND EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION Holocaust Literature and the Shaping of European Identity after the Second World War: the Case of Jorge Sempr?n; K-M.Simonsen Goodbye to All That? Jewish Views of Europe after 1945; I.Zwiep Language out of Darkness: George Steiner Speaking the Unspeakable; R.G.Soeiro Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134932373X
• ISBN13: 9781349323739
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"