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Visions for Europe
Debating the future of the European Union with great political thinkers
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- English
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eBook - ePub
Visions for Europe
Debating the future of the European Union with great political thinkers
About this book
This book offers a fresh look at some of the most challenging dilemmas of European integration and proposes innovative solutions to them by building on perspectives and insights from twelve classical authors in the history of political thought. The book simultaneously offers an original introduction to critical debates in EU studies and makes key political thinkers more accessible to contemporary readers by presenting present-day policy applications of their doctrines. While each chapter discusses a specific challenge for the EU, five key themes appear recurrently throughout the book: (i) the prospects for peace in Europe; (ii) the conditions for an inclusive EU democracy; (iii) socioeconomic inequalities in the EU; (iv) strategies to promote political change in Europe; and (v) the requisites for a fully-fledged EU citizenship. The authors discussed are Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Arendt, Rawls and hooks.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Debating the future of Europe with great political thinkers
- 1 Plato: does Europe need a philosopher-king?
- 2 Aristotle: civic friendship in the European Union
- 3 Augustine of Hippo: must Europeans be pessimistic?
- 4 Niccolò Machiavelli: in search of a European prince
- 5 Thomas Hobbes: making the European social contract work
- 6 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: can EU citizens form a general will?
- 7 Immanuel Kant: can the European Union ensure perpetual peace?
- 8 Mary Wollstonecraft: enhancing political equality in the European Union
- 9 Karl Marx: class struggles in the European Union
- 10 Hannah Arendt: tackling the banalisation of evil by Europe’s far right
- 11 John Rawls: public reasons for European integration
- 12 bell hooks: undoing Europe’s interlocking systems of domination
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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