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Notes Towards a (More) Cosmopolitan History of European Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2013

Paulo De Medeiros*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University, Trans 10 – Kamer 1.22, NL-3512JK Utrecht, the Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

Was den Kern der europäischen Identität ausmacht, ist freilich mehr der Charakter schmerzlicher Lernprozesse als dessen Ergebnis. Die Erinnerung an den moralischen Abgrund, in den uns der nationalistische Exzess geführt hat, verleiht unserem heutigen Engagement den Stellenwert einer Errungenschaft. (Jürgen Habermas1)

Type
Focus: Writing a History of European Literature as Part of a World History of Literature
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 2013

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