ed. by Wolfgang Müller-Funk

The volume, the output of a conference held at the Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici (Rome, 27 February-1 March 2019), entails two different issues. On the one hand it aims to discuss the state of the arts with regard to the philosophical and cultural discourse on liminal phenomena, while, on the other hand, it refers to the everyday life of European politics, which is not only influenced by the debate on migration and on the borders of the European Union, between Europe and its neighbours, but also within its own member states.

The title is deliberately ambiguous. It calls into questions whether Europe can be defined by specific modes of demarcations, but it also points to the quality and nature of these borders (inside as well as outside) and to the role and function of the half-continent.

Isbn: 978-88-95868-524-7

Roma 2021  pp. 204 € 22,00

Table of contents

• Wolfgang Müller-Funk, The Borders of Europe. Instead of an Introduction
  pp. 9-17

• Ágnes Heller, Can Europe Survive?
  pp. 19-27

• Mauro Ponzi, Borders, Demarcations, and Identities. People and Populism in Contemporary Europe
  pp. 29-44

• Johan Schimanski, (Un)folding European Borders
  pp. 45-56

• Tommaso Morawski, Counter-Mapping Migrant Forms of Life
  pp. 57-69

• Gerlinde Steininger, B/ordering Europe in Parliamentary Debates in Austria During the EU Presidency 2018
  pp. 71-98

• Clemens Ruthner, Being ‘Borderline’. Liminality as a Heuristic Concept
  pp. 99-109
  

• Dario Gentili, Hic sunt leones. Border/Frontier. The Political Genea-logy of a Spatial Disposition
  pp. 111-121

• Giulia Iannucci, The Formation of the New City: Berlin as the European Paradigm
  pp. 123-131

• Daniela Padularosa, Adrift. Nomadism in Contemporary Cities
  pp. 133-145

• Rüdiger Görner, Boundaries, Frontiers, and Border-Crossings. Reflections on the Political Aesthetics of Liminality
  pp. 147-159

• Anna Czajka-Cunico, Borderland Thinking in Polish Cultural Studies and the Possibility of Its Interdisciplinary Development. Some Introductory Reflections and Examples
  pp. 161-172

• Micaela Latini, Sliding Borders. Between Ingeborg Bachmann’s Storytelling and Jean Améry’s Testimony
  pp. 227-229

• The Authors
  pp. 183-186

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