Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Epstein Mark W.
    Magris, symbolic spaces and European identity
    in Journal of European Studies , vol. 42, n. 4, december ,  2012 ,  362-374
    ABSTRACT: This essay examines selected aspects of Claudio Magris’s life and work, his analysis of Mitteleuropean culture, his use of symbolic spaces and his reflection on borders, frontiers, territorialism and identity, as part of a broader set of relations between literature, values, identity, ethics, and the politics and policies of human interaction in more inclusive communities and networks. Starting from his more local and regional northern Italian identity and Bildung, the essay traces some essential paths through his research into Mitteleuropean culture, centred especially around an examination of the ‘inner’ and individual dynamics of acculturation. It then proceeds to a comparison with the sense of intellectual, Italian and European identity of another famous Germanist, finally to arrive at some of his later works, both fictional and essayistic, placing them in the context of the current institutional dynamics shaping ‘European identity’, examining some the global/‘peripheral’ forces that are most responsible for this ‘shaping’.
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