European Identity and the Second World War

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Editor’s Introduction: Ideals, Identity and War: The Idea of Europe, 1939–70....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Human Rights and European Identity since World War II....Pages 21-36
Before Integration....Pages 37-54
From War Talk to Rights Talk....Pages 55-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Myth and History in European Post-War History Writing....Pages 75-91
From Nazi Legacy to Cold War: British Perceptions of European Identity, 1945–54....Pages 92-110
The Nordic Way Out....Pages 111-123
‘Europe is the Country of the Spirit’: Albert Camus and Europeanism in France, 1944–7....Pages 124-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
The Ventotene Manifesto: The Crisis of the Nation State and the Political Identity of Europe....Pages 141-158
Max Kohnstamm’s New Europe....Pages 159-170
Atoms for Europe....Pages 171-185
Before Self-Reflexivity: Imperialism and Colonialism in the Early Discourses of European Integration....Pages 186-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Holocaust Literature and the Shaping of European Identity after the Second World War: The Case of Jorge Semprun....Pages 205-223
Goodbye to All That? Jewish Views of Europe after 1945....Pages 224-234
Language Out of Darkness: George Steiner Speaking the Unspeakable....Pages 235-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-273