European Self-Reflection Between Politics and Religion

This collection of essays suggests new ways of looking at the intertwining of political and religious agonies in the period 1914-1991. The long 'European civil war' revealed that Europe, far from being formed by a one-track progression, has followed several tracks or fault lines, leading to a number of contrasts in European self-perception.

Autorentext
Gerard Delanty, University of Sussex, UK Morten Heiberg, The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen Birthe Hoffmann, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Julio Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Dietrich Korsch, Philips-Universität in Marburg, Germany Jan-Werner Müller, Princeton University, USA Adam Paulsen, The University of Southern Denmark Tine Reeh, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Inhalt
Preface PART I: CONTESTING EUROPEAN IDENTITIES. FASCISM AND THE CHALLENGES FROM WITHIN 1. Italian Intellectuals and the European View. Croce, Nitti and Chabod between Dictatorship and Democracy; G. Sørensen 2. Europe between Democracy and Fascism:Hermann Heller on Fascism as Threat to Europe and Democracy as a Community of Values; K. C. Lammers 3. Reconstruction or Decline? The Concept of Europe and its Political Implications in the Works of Ernst Troeltsch and Oswald Spengler; A. Paulsen 4. A Long and Winding Road: An International Perspective on the Fall and Rise of Democracy in Spain in the 20th Century; M. Heiberg PART II: RENEGOTIATING THE RELIGIOUS-SECULAR DIVIDE 5. Theology as Language of Crisis: Karl Barth's Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans; D. Korsch 6. Martin Heidegger A Protestant Church Father of the 20th Century? The Early Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religion and the Crisis of Western Culture; L. K. Bruun 7. The Heritage from Athens and Galilee: Secular Democracy as a Lutheran Response to the European Crisis; T. Reeh 8. Religion and Secular Modernity: A Historical Perspective on the Ratzinger-Habermas Dialogue; J. Jensen PART III: POST-WAR REINTERPRETATION OF EUROPEAN HERITAGE 9. A Post-Post-Liberal Order:How Western Europe Emerged from its Thirty-Year Crisis; J. Müller 10. Bombing Beyond Democracy: Remembering the Ruins of Europe; B.Hoffmann 11. Reinterpreting the European Heritage since 1989; G. Delanty Index