Thoughts on the Concept of West and East in Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7786313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hugh Seton‐watson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 156-165 |
| Publication date | 1985-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Government and Opposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1985.tb01075.x |
| OpenAlex | W2089854301 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
EUROPE AT FIRST SIGHT SEEMS A WORD WITH A CLEAR MEANing; but a further look shows it to be most ambiguous. The most obvious meaning is geographical: Europe is the north-west peninsula of the Asian land mass. But even this is not correct: there are three western peninsulas: Finland, Scandinavia and the main European. Usually the three are lumped together; but even at its narrowest point the sea which divides these is much wider than that which separates the Balkans from Anatolia - which is always reckoned to be Asia, and indeed one portion of which constituted the whole of Asia when that word was first used. I know this because I once swam across the Bosphorus, but would certainly never have tried the sound between Elsinore and Helsingborg
Archaeology · Epistemology · Geography · Meaning (existential · Peninsula · Sight · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Cultural and National Identity · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1988 - 2016 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |