ABSTRACT
Today Europe stands at a crossroads unlike any it has faced since 1945. Since the 2008 financial crash, Europe has weathered the Greek debt crisis, the 2015 refugee crisis, and the identity crisis brought about by Brexit in 2016. The future of the European project is in doubt. How will Europe respond? Reform and revolution have been two forms of response to crisis that have shaped Europe’s history. To understand Europe’s present, we must understand that past. This interdisciplinary book considers, through the prism of several landmark moments, how the dynamics of reformation and revolution, and the crises they either addressed or created, have shaped European history, memory, and thought.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|64 pages
Reform
chapter 1|21 pages
Panorama 1989
The Political Aesthetics of the Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany
part II|67 pages
Revolution
chapter 6|19 pages
“Periodise and Pass Beyond”
Maoism as Marxism’s Third Period in Alain Badiou’s Theory of the Subject
part III|90 pages
Crisis
chapter 9|17 pages
Of the Duality of Crises
The 2008 Crisis as Consensual Economics and Divergent Discourses in the British Context
