The Idea of Europe: Problems of National and Transnational Identity

Marc Notes: Based on an international conference ... organized by the Centre for European Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, in July 1989--Pref. Publisher Marketing: A collection of essays based on an international conference in 1989. The essays examine both the historical dimension of the European idea and the problems of national and transnational identity confronting European integration in the 1990s. Chapters discuss post-modern Europe, Europe and Japan, the European identity, political parties, contemporary feminist movements, socialism, Austrian identity and an essay on Mitterand. Contributor Bio:  Roberts, David David Roberts, Reader in German at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, is coeditor of the journal "Thesis Eleven," He is the author of "The Indirections of Desire: Hamlet in Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister"" (1980) and other books.