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The European Crisis and Cultural Intimacy

By Michael Herzfeld

Volume 13, Issue 3, pages 491-497

 

Introduction

Europe finds itself caught in a moment of supreme embarrassment. The self‐appointed home of enlightened rationality now finds itself hoist by the petard of its own rationalist criteria. The euro may be on its last legs, the European Union is at the very least disturbingly dyspeptic, and its constituent countries repeatedly assert their fealty only as a means of insisting on their own cultural and territorial sovereignty.

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