European Identity and the Second World War

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
Contributors......Page 11
Editor’s Introduction Ideals, Identity and War: the Idea of Europe, 1939–70......Page 18
Part I World War II, Europe and Human Rights......Page 36
1 Human Rights and European Identity since World War II: Vergangenheitsbewältigung through Law......Page 38
2 Before Integration: Human Rights and Post-War Europe......Page 54
3 From War Talk to Rights Talk:* Exile Politics, Human Rights, and the Two World Wars......Page 72
Part II Reflections: Narratives of European Civilization and World War II......Page 90
4 Myth and History in European Post-War History Writing......Page 92
5 From Nazi Legacy to Cold War: British Perceptions of European Identity, 1945–54*......Page 109
6 The Nordic Way Out: Europe in Danish Literature after the Second World War......Page 128
7 ‘Europe is the Country of the Spirit’: Albert Camus and Europeanism in France, 1944–7......Page 141
Part III Visions: Plans for a New Europe after World War II......Page 156
8 The Ventotene Manifesto: the Crisis of the Nation State and the Political Identity of Europe......Page 158
9 Max Kohnstamm’s New Europe......Page 176
10 Atoms for Europe......Page 188
11 Before Self-Reflexivity: Imperialism and Colonialism in the Early Discourses of European Integration......Page 203
Part IV Shoah, War and European Civilization......Page 220
12 Holocaust Literature and the Shaping of European Identity after the Second World War: the Case of Jorge Semprún......Page 222
13 Goodbye to All That? Jewish Views of Europe after 1945......Page 241
14 Language Out of Darkness: George Steiner Speaking the Unspeakable......Page 252
References......Page 264
Index......Page 282