Discourses and counter-discourses on Europe from the Enlightenment to the EU : from the Enlightenment to the EU

The European Union plays an increasingly central role in global relations from migration to trade to institutional financial solvency. The formation and continuation of these relations – their narratives and discourses - are rooted in social, political, and economic historical relations emerging at the founding of European states and then substantially augmented in the Post-WWII era. Any rethinking of our European narratives requires a contextualized analysis of the formation of hegemonic discourses. The book contributes to the ongoing process of "rethinking" the European project, identity, and institutions, brought about by the end of the Cold war and the current economic and political crisis. Starting from the principle that the present European crisis goes hand in hand with the crisis of its hegemonic discourse, the aim of the volume is to rescue the complexity, the richness, the ambiguity of the discourses on Europe as opposed to the present simplification. The multidisciplinary approach and the long-term perspective permits illuminating scope over multiple discourses, historical periods, and different "languages", including that of the European institutions. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, European integration, European History, and more broadly international relations. Introduction : Rescuing Europe From Its Rhetoric / Manuela Ceretta And Barbara Curli -- Thinking Europe In The Age Of Enlightenment : Philosophes And Antiphilosophes Between Universalism And Fragmentation / Patrizia Delpiano -- Evoking Europe Against The French Revolution : The Rhetorical Tools Of Counter-revolutionary Thinkers / Manuela Ceretta -- Discourses On Europe And Their Political Value In Restoration France / Giuseppe Sciara -- A European Framework For Military Institutions? : International Integration And European Perspectives In Military Rhetorics After The Second World War / Marco Di Giovanni -- Nuclear Europe : Technoscientific Modernity And European Integration In Euratom's Early Discourse / Barbara Curli -- Parliamentary Groups And Political Traditions In The Debates On Eu Institutional Reform (1979-1999) / Paolo Caraffini, Filippo Maria Giordano -- The Political Groups Of The European Parliament In The Face Of Yugoslavia Disintegration And The Discursive Framing Of Eu Foreign Policy (1991-1995) / Giovanni Finizio, Umberto Morelli -- The Alter-globalist Counter-discourse In European Rhetoric And Translation : Women's Rights At The European Parliament / Maria Cristina Caimotto, Rachele Raus -- Europe In The Media Space : The Construction Of The Eu Public Sphere In Italy / Marinella Belluati, Cristopher Cepernich -- Isis-dabiq Communicative Strategies, Nato And Europe : Who Is Learning From Whom? / Michelangelo Conoscenti -- Changing Perceptions Of The European Union In The Mena Region Before And After The Arab Uprisings : The Case Of Tunisia / Rosita Di Peri, Federica Zardo. Edited By Manuela Ceretta And Barbara Curli. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.