Syllabus
The main chapters of these debates and of this course:
Europe and ancient Asia
Europe and Christianity
Europe and Judaism
Europe and “Barbarians”: Germans, Slavs, Hungarians…
Europe and Islam
Europe and renewed Greek-Roman tradition
Europe and Reformation
Europe and Enlightenment
Europe and nationalism
Europe and socialism
Europe and Russia
Europe and America
Europe and new Asia
Annotation
The question of European identity became a subject of heated debates repeatedly. It does so again nowadays, due to various reasons: crisis of the European Union, the rise of radical Islamism, the discourse of a “Decadent
West”, fueled by Russian propaganda, the “Identitarian Movement” et cetera. These debates take place mostly at the level of journalism or social media. All the more so, these debates offer a good opportunity for academics to recapitulate and re-question the history of changing “European identities” from the very beginning of European history. Academics have mighty tools at their disposal: The context-based knowledge and understanding of primary literary sources, reflecting these identities and these debates. So have we.