Formations of European Modernity: A Historical and Political Sociology of Europe

Front Matter ....Pages i-lix
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 The European Inter-Civilizational Constellation  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 3-25
 The Greco-Roman and Judaic Legacies  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 27-49
 Christianity in the Making of Europe  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 51-71
 Between East and West: The Byzantine Legacy and Russia  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 73-89
 The Islamic World and Islam in Europe  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 91-106
Front Matter ....Pages 107-107
 The Renaissance and the Rise of European Consciousness  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 109-131
 Unity and Divisions in Early Modern European History: The Emergence of a Westernized Europe  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 133-155
 The Enlightenment and the Idea of Europe  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 157-181
 The Rise of the Nation-State and the Allure of Empire: Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 183-213
 Europe as a World Historical Region: A Global Perspective on the European Formation of Modernity  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 215-239
 The Historical Regions of Europe: Civilizational Backgrounds and Multiple Routes to Modernity  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 241-263
 Europe in the Short Twentieth Century: Conflicting Projects of Modernity  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 265-301
Front Matter ....Pages 303-303
 Europe Since 1989: Globalization, Europeanization and the Crisis of the Nation-State in Late Modernity  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 305-339
 Age of Austerity: Contradictions of Capitalism and Democracy and the Crisis of European Integration  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 341-363
 ‘The Centre Cannot Hold’: The Return of Nationalism and the Spectre of Authoritarian Democracy  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 365-397
 Memory, Heritage and History: The European Heritage as a Conflict of Interpretations  (Gerard Delanty)....Pages 399-420
Back Matter ....Pages 421-479