The Ideas of Europe

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01013199
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lectures by professors with presentations of theory, using audiovisual media.  There will be a practical component in which students are required to read, analyze and discuss texts by authors included in the program. This student participation in class is an important part of the assessment.

Learning Outcomes

Students will gain a knowledge of the evolution of the idea of ​​Europe from Greek Antiquity to the mid-twentieth century, understanding of the ideas of European unity in response to different historical contexts and be able to establish a relationship between the thinking of different authors.  Students will also develop critical thinking skills that will allow them to view the current European Union as an idea that has "brewed" for centuries, noting, despite the historical dynamics caused by differences in the proposals for unity, a certain transversal temporality in its principles. It encourages the student to design their own idea of "European unity".

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Europe before it was Europe: the old world

2. Emergence of the idea of unity

a) Idea of universal empire and Medieval Christianity

b) From the Christian Republic to Humanist Europe

c) From the Protestant reforms to the Enlightenment: the "European Union" and "Perpetual Peace" projects.

3. The Europe of Nations and the consolidation of the idea of unity

a) French Revolution/Nation-State/Napoleonic Europe

b) Nationalism/Internationalism/Universalism and European order (Mazzini, Saint-Simon, Fourier, Victor Hugo, ...)

4. The Decline of the West and the urgent need for unity

a) Aftermath of WWI and European decline

b) Unity projects (Pan-Europe and the Briand Memorandum)

c) Intellectual Dedication to the European destiny (Paul Valéry, Ortega y Gasset, Salvador de Madariaga, Louise Weiss ...)

d) Resistance to the idea of unity (Kalergi, Jean Monnet, Spaak, Spinelli)

e) The "European hour": European movements and the founding fathers.

Head Lecturer(s)

Dina Sofia Neves Sebastião

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Class participation: 15.0%
Project: 35.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

BOSSUAT, Gérard, Les fondateurs de l’Europe, Paris  Bélin, 2001.

MALETTKE, Klaus (dir), Imaginer l’Europe, Édition Belin, Paris, 1998.

WILSON, K. & DUSSEN, J. (ed.), The History of the Idea of Europe, The Open University, Nova Iorque, 1993.

PADGEN, Anthony, The Idea of Europe, from Antiquity to the European Union, Woodrow Wilson Center Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007.

RIBEIRO, M. Manuela Tavares, "A Europa dos intelectuais nos alvores do século XX". Estudos do século XX, n.º 2, Coimbra, CEIS20, 2002.

RIBEIRO, M. Manuela Tavares, A Ideia de Europa, uma Perspectiva Histórica, Quarteto, Coimbra, 2003.

RIBEIRO, M. Manuela Tavares (coord.), Europa-Utopia - Europa-Realidade, Estudos do Século XX, n.º 2, Coimbra, CEIS20/Quarteto, 2002.

ROUGEMONT, Denis de, Écris sur L’Europe, 2 vols, Paris, Edition de la Différence, 1994.

SILVA, António Martins da, Portugal e a Europa, Distanciamento e Reencontro, Palimage Editores, Viseu, 2005