Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other Bo STRÅTH (ed.) P.I.E. Peter Lang Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other P.I.E. Peter Lang Bruxelles Bern Berlin Frankfurt am Main New York Oxford Wien z z z z 3 z z 4 Bo STRÅTH (ed.) Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other Multiple Europes Series No.10 5 A publication within the framework of the research project The Cultural Construction of Community in Modernisation Processes in Comparison in cooperation between the European University Institute, Florence and the Humboldt University, Berlin sponsored by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, Stockholm. Cover picture: “The Golden Gate” from Milcho Manchevski, Street, Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999, p. 87. The photo is taken in front of Porta di Paradiso by Lorenzo Ghiberti, Baptistery of Florence. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photocopy, microfilm or any other means, without prior written permission from the publisher. All rights reserved. © P.I.E. PETER LANG S.A. Éditions scientifiques internationales Brussels, 2000 – 4th printing, 2010 1 avenue Maurice, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgique www.peterlang.com ;
[email protected] Printed in Germany ISSN 1376-0904 ISBN 978-3-0352-6022-9 D/2010/5678/50 CIP available from the US Library of Congress and the British Library, GB. Bibliographic information published by “Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek” “Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek” lists this publication in the “Deutsche Nationalbibliografie”; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at . 6 Contents Preface ..........................................................................................11 Introduction: Europe as a Discourse .....................................13 by Bo Stråth Chapter 1.........................................................................................45 The Last Identification: Why Some of Us Would Like to Call Ourselves Europeans and What We Mean by This by Luisa Passerini Chapter 2.........................................................................................67 The Discourse of Europe and the Search for a European Identity by Hayden White Chapter 3.........................................................................................87 A European Identity? by Lutz Niethammer Chapter 4.......................................................................................113 Foundation Myths and Collective Identities in Early Modern Europe by Peter Burke Chapter 5.......................................................................................123 Decline or Renaissance: The Transformation of European Consciousness after the First World War by Katiana Orluc 7 Chapter 6.......................................................................................157 “The Third World” as an Element in the Collective Construction of a Post-Colonial European Identity by Erik Tängerstad Chapter 7.......................................................................................195 Race as a Construction of the Other: “Native Americans” and “Negroes” in the 18th Century Editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica by Silvia Sebastiani Chapter 8.......................................................................................229 Doing Christianity and Europe: An Inquiry into Memory, Boundary and Truth Practices in Malta by Gerold Gerber Chapter 9.......................................................................................279 In-between Nations: Ambivalence