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Title Critical theories of crisis in Europe : from Weimar to the Euro / edited by Poul F. Kjaer and Niklas Olsen
Published London : Rowman and Littlefield International, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 251 pages)
Series Reinventing critical theory
Reinventing critical theory.
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
Summary This book provides truly interdisciplinary analysis, bridging the gap between humanities, legal and social science approaches to the ongoing crisis in Europe
Analysis Crisis
Critical Theory
Euro
Europe
European Union
Legal Theory
Political Theory
ReinhartKoselleck
Social Theory
Weimar
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Union européenne. rero
Subject 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
SUBJECT Europe -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045748
Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
Europe
Subject Europe
Europa
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Kjaer, Poul F., editor
Olsen, Niklas, 1975- editor.
LC no. 2021678380
ISBN 9781783487479
178348747X