Evropská integrace jako problém
European Integration as a Problem

Summary/Abstract: Csaky, Moritz and Johannes Feichtinger (eds). Europa, geeint durch Werte? Die europaische Wertedebatte auf dem Prufstand der Geschichte. Bielefeld: Transkript, 2007, 215 pp; Csaky, Moritz and Elizabeth Grosseger (eds). Jenseits von Grenzen: Transnationales, translokales Gedachtnis. Vienna: Presens, 2007, 225 pp. The two essay volumes under review contain papers given at conferences in Vienna. The authors, predominantly Austrians, endeavour to apply the historical concept of ‘lieux de memoire’ (places of memory) in a search for answers to the question about the point of thematization of European values in processes of integration Summaries 528 Soudobé dějiny XVI / 2–3 on the Continent today. The reviewer points to certain contributions in particular, and finds that the common feature dominant in them and other works that define the special character of (central) Europe lies in the spirit of anti-essentialism and pluralistic openness.

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