TY - BOOK ID - 104708948 TI - The idea of Europe : enlightenment perspectives AU - von Kulessa, Rotraud AU - Seth, Catriona AU - Kulessa, Rotraud von PY - 2017 SN - 9781783743803 9781783743810 1783743808 1783743816 9781783743827 1783743824 9781783743797 9781783743780 1783743786 2821897324 1783743794 PB - Open Book Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Enlightenment KW - Political culture KW - Culture KW - Political science KW - History. KW - anthology KW - enlightenment KW - peace KW - hume KW - european union KW - rousseau KW - voltaire KW - kant KW - europe KW - common values KW - Age of Enlightenment KW - France KW - Germany KW - Italy KW - Paris UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:104708948 AB - In view of the challenges—many of which are political—that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the eighteenth century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which often remain pertinent nowadays. During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continent’s future in particular when stressing their hope that peace could be secured in Europe. The texts gathered here, and signed by major thinkers of the ti me (Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Kant, Hume or Staël for instance), as well as by writers history has forgotten, present the reflections, with a couple of chronological extensions (from Sully to Victor Hugo) of authors from the long eighteenth century—the French Empire and the fall of Napoleon generated numerous upheavals—on Europe, its history, its diversity, but also on what the nations, which, in all their diversity, make up a geographical unit, have in common. They show the historical origins of the project of a European union, the desire to consolidate the continent’s ties to the Maghreb or to Turkey, the importance granted to commerce and the worries engendered by history’s convulsions, but also the hope vested in future generations. ER -