Old Europe, New Europe, Eastern Europe

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7932183
AutoresA Parvulescu (0000-0003-1427-6756, Washington University in St. Louis, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume43
Fascículo4
Páginas727-750
Data de publicação2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Literary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/nlh.2012.0035
OpenAlexW2023033299
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências 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