Critical theories of crisis in Europe : from Weimar to the Euro

Critical theories of crisis in Europe : from Weimar to the Euro / edited by Poul F. Kjaer and Niklas Olsen.

This book provides truly interdisciplinary analysis, bridging the gap between humanities, legal and social science approaches to the ongoing crisis in Europe.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kjaer, Poul F. (Editor), Olsen, Niklas, 1975- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Rowman and Littlefield International, [2016]
Series:Reinventing critical theory.
Subjects:
Union européenne.
1900-1999
EU and European institutions.
International institutions.
International relations.
Politics and government.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
EU/EC History.
Political crisis.
Politics and government
Politische Krise
Kritische Theorie
Europe > Politics and government > 20th century.
Europe.
Europe
Europa
Electronic books.
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Semantics, notions and narratives of societal crisis
  • What time frame makes sense for thinking about crises? / David Runciman
  • The stakes of crisis / Janet Roitman
  • Part II. Weimar and the interwar period ideologies of antimodernism and liberalism
  • The crisis of modernity-modernity as crisis: toward a typology of crisis discourses in interwar East Central Europe and beyond / Balázs Trencsényi
  • European legitimacy crises-Weimar and today rational and theocratic authority in the Schmitt-Strauss exchange / John P. McCormick
  • Crisis and the consumer: reconstructions of liberalism in twentieth-century political thought / Niklas Olsen
  • Part III. The causes of crises from corporatism to governance
  • The constitutionalization of labour law and the crisis of national democracy / Chris Thornhill
  • Conflict and the crisis in labour law: from Weimar to austerity / Ruth Dukes
  • From the crisis of corporatism to he crisis of governance / Poul F. Kjaer.
  • Part IV. The Euro and the crisis of law and democracy
  • What is left of the European Economic Constitution II? : from Pyrrhic victory to Cannae defeat / Christian Joerges
  • Reflections on Europe's 'Rule of law crises' / Jan-Werner Müller
  • Democracy under siege: the decay of constitutionalization and the crisis of public law and public opinion / Hauke Brunkhorst
  • Part V. The consequences of crises and the future of Europe
  • Crises and extralegality from above and from below / William E. Scheuerman
  • 'We could go down the road of Lebanon': crisis thinking on the anti-Muslim far rights / Mikkel Thorup
  • Conclusions and perspectives: the reconstitution of Europe / Poul F. Jkaer and Kiklas Olsen.

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