Europa and Utopia: how cultural history deals with the paradox of modernity. Review article

Review of Luisa Passerini, Europe in Love, Love in Europe: Imagination and Politics in Britain Between the Wars. An unusual study of European identities assembling fascinating new material but making contentious connections. Passerini provides a purely historical account of the attitudes towards Eur...

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Published in:New Left review 1999-07 (236), p.103-116
Main Author: Bewes, T
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Review of Luisa Passerini, Europe in Love, Love in Europe: Imagination and Politics in Britain Between the Wars. An unusual study of European identities assembling fascinating new material but making contentious connections. Passerini provides a purely historical account of the attitudes towards Europe of intellectuals and poets in Britain in the 1930s, and traces a purely theoretical connection between the idea of Europe and the discourse of romantic love. The work is a striking example of the way in which politics today is regarded as thin and inadequate unless rooted in the affective and the cultural. (Quotes from original text)
ISSN:0028-6060