Europaian Studies
Manners, Ian LU
(2003)
In Journal of Contemporary European Studies
11(1).
p.67-83
- Abstract
- I compare and contrast four cross-disciplinary approaches to the social and natural sciences within the specific context of the tradition of speculation about Europe. As we will see later, I have termed the three conventional social science approaches ‘civilisational’, ‘categorical’, and ‘cultural’ Europe. My innovation is to suggest a fourth approach drawn from the natural sciences — that of ‘co-constituted’ Europe. As Lynn Margulis suggested in the extract at the start of this article, as a species we cling to the familiar, comforting conformities of the mainstream — a mainstream that often determines what we see and how we know. By challenging ‘convention’ head-on in this article, I intend to argue that it is possible to engage in... (More)
- I compare and contrast four cross-disciplinary approaches to the social and natural sciences within the specific context of the tradition of speculation about Europe. As we will see later, I have termed the three conventional social science approaches ‘civilisational’, ‘categorical’, and ‘cultural’ Europe. My innovation is to suggest a fourth approach drawn from the natural sciences — that of ‘co-constituted’ Europe. As Lynn Margulis suggested in the extract at the start of this article, as a species we cling to the familiar, comforting conformities of the mainstream — a mainstream that often determines what we see and how we know. By challenging ‘convention’ head-on in this article, I intend to argue that it is possible to engage in European theory through an understanding and appreciation of broader developments in the social and natural sciences — an engagement I will term ‘Europaian studies’. What I intend to do is speculate about Europe from four radically different crossdisciplinary approaches, a speculation that will lead me to conclude by reflecting on what Europaian studies means for the understanding of contemporary Europe. (Less)
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- author
- Manners, Ian
LU
- publishing date
- 2003
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- European Studies, European Union, Gaia, co-constituted Europe, holism, homoeostasis, symbiosis, atomism
- in
- Journal of Contemporary European Studies
- volume
- 11
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- ISSN
- 1478-2804
- DOI
- 10.1080/14782800305479
- language
- English
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- 7e3cee2f-bfb1-439a-8b70-0fceb2680511
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