Old Europe, New Europe, Eastern Europe

Reflections on a Minor Character in Fassbinder's Ali, Fear Eats the Soul

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7932183
AutoresA Parvulescu (0000-0003-1427-6756, Washington University in St. Louis, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen43
Número4
Páginas727-750
Fecha de publicación2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew Literary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/nlh.2012.0035
OpenAlexW2023033299
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas12

In today's Europe, the term Eurosceptic often accompanies accusations of retrograde nationalism, irrational feelings, even fanaticism. When applied to Europe, skepticism, one of the critic's formative traits, acquires a bad reputation, as if it can only be an annihilating, rather than constructive, form of doubt. And yet skepticism is a much-needed critical affect, particularly when it comes to Europe. If we need to be skeptical of anything, it is Europe. Today one hears claims about Europe having become postnational, postracial, even post-Europe. How else can the literary and cultural critic welcome such claims other than with a healthy dose of skepticism

Art · Constructive · Epistemology · Fanaticism · Irrational number · Literature · Nationalism · Political science · Skepticism · Soul · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy