EUtROPEs: The Paradox of European Empire

by John W. Boyer (Editor), Berthold Molden (Editor)

Cahiers Parisiens / Parisian Notebooks publish selected papers drawn from the various advanced-level activities at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. In Volume Seven, scholars from across the continent consider Europe as a discourse made of the sediments of historical experience and utopian ideas. Attached to a geographical region with constantly shifting boundaries, the group considers EUtROPEs as the cultural codes that endow Europe with the many meanings that it has held for different actors at different times. Twenty historians, linguists, cultural scientists, musicologists, and scholars of philosophy, urban studies, and film studies who came together at the University of Chicago’s Center in Paris discuss these tropes in different fields and consider whether the present can continue to bear the weight of the many ideas and legacies of Europe.
 

463 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2015

About the author

John W. Boyer is a Professor of History and the Dean of the College at the University of Chicago. His fields include "Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Political and Cultural History, particularly in Germany and the Habsburg Empire, Religion and Politics in Modern European History and the History of the Universities". He is perhaps best known for his two-volume history of the Christian Social Party during the end of the 19th century in Austria. He co-edits, with Jan Goldstein, the Journal of Modern History.