Vienna's Dreams of Europe : Culture and Identity Beyond the Nation-State EPUB
by Arens Katherine Arens
Part of the New Directions in German Studies series
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Vienna's Dreams of Europe puts forward a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions of Europe's nation-states, Austria appears only as an afterthought, no matter that its precursor states-the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Austria Hungary-represented a globalized European cultural space outside the dominant paradigm of nationalist colonialism. Austrian writers today confront reunited Europe in full acknowledgment of Austro-Hungary's multicultural heritage, which mixes various nationalities, ethnicities, and cultural forms, including ancestors from the Balkans and beyond.
Challenging standard accounts of 18th- through 20th-century European imperial identity construction, Vienna's Dreams of Europe introduces a group of Austrian public intellectuals and authors who have since the 18th century construed their own public as European. Working in different terms than today's theorist-critics of the hegemonic West, Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism.
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- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)
- Publication Date:22/10/2015
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)
- Publication Date:22/10/2015
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- ISBN:9781441118233
