CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Van den Eeden, Mare Elise |
|---|---|
| Title | In Search of Europe. Ideas of Europe from a Central European Perspective, 1918-present |
| Summary | This dissertation focuses on the idea of Europe from a Central European perspective. In a field fixated on Western ideas relegating Central and Eastern Europe to the status of catching-up periphery, it aims to map Central European narratives of and for Europe as a whole. I claim that the peculiar history of Central Europe has led to a specific way of seeing and understanding Europe, its history and its future. During the last quarter of a century this 'Central European Idealism', as I call it, has generated important contributions to the debates on pan-European self-perception and the continent's future trajectory. In my view, however, it is impossible to make sense of these assertions without resorting to the history of the idea of Europe in Central Europe's tumultuous century. |
| Supervisor | Iordachi, Constantin |
| Department | History PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/van-den-eeden_mare.pdf |
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