The End of Postwar: Essays on the Work of Ian Buruma (Verhandelingen Van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie Van Belgi) [Paperback] Boone, M; Deneckere, G and Tollebeek, J

Boone, M [Editor]; Tollebeek, J [Editor]; Deneckere, G [Editor];

ISBN 10: 9042936444 / ISBN 13: 9789042936447

Published by Peeters, 2018

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Paperback with light shelf wear. Light ding to a few of the middle pages. Otherwise, pages are clean, unmarked and unread.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The End of Postwar: Essays on the Work of Ian Buruma (Verhandelingen Van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie Van Belgi) [Paperback] Boone, M; Deneckere, G and Tollebeek, J
• Publisher: Peeters
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042936444
• ISBN 13: 9789042936447
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 10 ounces

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Synopsis

In the autumn of 2015 the Dutch-English publicist Ian Buruma gave direction to the thinker's programme 'The End of Postwar', organised by the Flemish Royal Academy. The programme was triggered by Buruma's publication Year zero: a history of 1945, which focuses on the coming into being of a new global order in the aftermath of World War Two. The birth of a welfare state and the European unification process were its two most remarkable achievements. Both, however, have been under constant pressure since the beginning of the 21st century. Two workshops and a two-day symposium brought together thinkers from the scientific, cultural and political worlds in order to reflect on the central theme of 'The end of postwar: which future for Europe?'. This collection of essays reflects the debates, which dealt with issues such as the re-invention of the welfare state, the breach of the postwar consensus, the durability of humanism and the role of a United Europe as an answer to history.