A Political Theory of Identity in European Integration

European Integration Revisited—From the Founding Fathers to the Normative Power Europe

“…Guisan (2012) brings the missing thorough theoretical discussion to Seidel's work. Guisan's analysis is based on the work of important twentieth-century political theorists such as Hannah Arendt ("natality, plurality, forgiveness and promise, action and thinking, and the responses of Arendtian scholars"), Isaiah Berlin (pluralism), Karl Jasper (collective responsibility), Jü rgen Habermas (discourse ethics), Charles Taylor and Paul Ricoeur (concepts of recognition) (Guisan, 2012: 3-6).…”

“…Both volumes (Seidel, 2010 andGuisan, 2012) are complementary and could be read together to get a clearer idea on the elites/non elites' players that contributed to the creation of a European identity and European civil servants. Both authors remind us that the ability of the founding fathers to unite the efforts of countries that have had ones of the bloodiest wars in history should not be overlooked or explained by a narrow economic interest dimension (Guisan, 2012: 1-2).…”

Usos públicos de passados ditatoriais: Visualizações na Alemanha

“…The journal Der Ruf was also an important initiative that tried to promote discussions about the Nacional Socialism, but soon its printing license was revoked in 1947 (PEARCE, 2008). According to some thinkers, after this initial debate and the sentence of the main Nazi officers, comes a second period that under a Stunde Null² conception, was characterized by silence (GUISAN, 2012, GROSSMANN, 1998. One of the reasons of this lack of debate on the public agenda may be that the main challenge by then was focused on the democratic consolidation, the reconstruction of the civil life and the willing to avoid nationalist revivals (PEARCE, 2008).…”

“…2 Stunde Null (military term that means "zero hour") is the name usually given to the initial post-war period, that is also called Nachkriegszeit. About these concepts, see Guisan (2012), Herf (1997) and Grossmann (1998). Koselleck (2011) admits that Germany went through in the postwar period marked by a Verdrängung (repression).…”

A Shape-Shifting Creature Dissected: Political Representations of Jean Monnet in European Studies

“…Reuter, a French law professor, was Monnet's right-hand man during the conception of the ECSC's founding treaties. Both Guisan (2013) and Isoni (2010) stress the connection between Reuter and Monnet to add a specific ideological element to their EU origin story. Isoni presents Reuter as an intellectual descendent of the Non-conformistes movement of interwar France, which sought "a 'third way' other than socialism or capitalism, individualism or collectivism," and drew inspiration from the tradition of "Saint-Simon and Comte-style technocracy which, unlike the American version, considered the support of adequate public institutions as essential" (2010, p. 274).…”