Reform, Revolution and Crisis in Europe : Landmarks in History, Memory and Thought

"Today Europe stands at a crossroads unlike any it has faced since 1945. Since the 2008 financial crash, Europe has weathered the Greek debt crisis, the 2015 refugee crisis, and the identity crisis brought about by Brexit in 2016. The future of the European project is in doubt. How will Europe respond? Reform and revolution have been two forms of response to crisis that have shaped Europe's history. To understand Europe's present, we must understand that past. This interdisciplinary book considers, through the prism of several landmark moments, how the dynamics of reformation and revolution, and the crises they either addressed or created, have shaped European history, memory, and thought"-- Provided by publisher Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: (Hi)stories of Europe • Cat Moir Part I: Reform 1 Panorama 1989: The Political Aesthetics of the Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany • Cat Moir 2 Reading the Sign of the Times: The Moravian Brethren’s Quiet Revolution • Christina Petterson 3 Missionary Letters: Authority, Masculinity and Reform • Maria Veber Part II: Revolution 4 Violence to Velvet: A Century of Revolutions —1917–2017 • Roger D. Markwick 5 A Revolutionary Approach to Physical Culture • Keith Rathbone 6 “Periodise and Pass Beyond”: Maoism as Marxism’s Third Period in Alain Badiou’s Theory of the Subject • Robert Boncardo Part III: Crisis 7 European Diplomacy in Crisis: Lessons From the Congress of Berlin of 1878 • Nina Markovic Khaze 8 Madagascar 1947: Reform or Revolution? • Elizabeth Rechniewski 9 Of the Duality of Crises: The 2008 Crisis as Consensual Economics and Divergent Discourses in the British Context • Clémence Fourton 10 The Right to Asylum: One of the Great Contradictions of Modern European History • Bronwyn Winter Conclusion: (Hi)stories of Crisis • Bronwyn Winter Contributors Index