Editors:
- Deals with the fundamental semantics of images of Europe
- Discusses the interface between pro- or anti-European tendencies
- Analyses the texts which circulate in the Europeans’ daily life, giving form to the Union’s identity
Part of the book series: Law and Visual Jurisprudence (LVJ, volume 4)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Perspectives and Destinies
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Front Matter
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Borders and Limits
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Front Matter
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Narratives and Representations
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Front Matter
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About this book
The identity of the European continent is based on a millenary tension between universalism and particularism: images of Europe have in fact been alternately inspired, over the centuries, by a model of homogeneity – Roman and Carolingian imperial disposition – on the one hand, and by a model of fragmentation – a Europe of city-states, municipalities, regions and small fatherlands – on the other. In the European Union, a political and economic organism, this issue has recently been amplified to the point that it has reentered public debate, and political parties that are only recognizable for being Europeanists or anti-Europeanists are now ubiquitous. In this regard, one major bone of contention is how to portray the quintessential aspects of the European territory, which are either interpreted as “thresholds” to be overcome in the name of a model of United Europe – “integral totality” – or are instead regarded as insurmountable obstacles for a Europe that is irreparably and perhaps, according to anti-Europeanists, fortunately fragmented – “partitive totality”. Further, this is to be done without excluding the possibility of contradictory and complementary solutions to these binary visions.
In this context the book analyzes various texts in order to obtain a more precise picture of the clash, reveal its semiotic forms, and by doing so, identify a way out of the crisis.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Francesco Mangiapane
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University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy
Tiziana Migliore
About the editors
Francesco Mangiapane deals with Socio-Semiotics of Culture and has investigated issues related to visual identity, branding, social media and internet culture, food and cultural identity. He has teached Communication of food at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo and holds the course of Semiotics of Cultural Heritage at the Degree Course in Cultural Heritage Sciences of the University of Palermo and. Among his writings: Peppa Pig (2014), Retoriche social (2018). He is also editor of the special issue of International Journal for the Semiotics of Law dedicated to animality, entitled Animals in Law. He is a columnist on national and local newspapers and magazines.
Tiziana Migliore is adjunct professor of Semiotics at UniMercatorum University – Rome. She is the scientific secretary of the CiSS-International Center of Semiotic Sciences Umberto Eco, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, and the vice president of the International Association of Visual Semiotics. She has teached in several Universities, as IUAV Venice, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, University of Urbino Carlo Bo and University of Rome Tor Vergata. An expert of visual semiotics, rhetoric and aesthetics, her inquiry focuses on semiotic analysis of artworks. She has published Sensi del visibile: immagine, testo, opera (2018), Biennale di Venezia. Il catalogo è questo (2012), Miroglifici. Figura e scrittura in Joan Miró (2011), and more than 60 scientific articles in Italian and international journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Images of Europe
Book Subtitle: The Union between Federation and Separation
Editors: Francesco Mangiapane, Tiziana Migliore
Series Title: Law and Visual Jurisprudence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69240-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69239-1Published: 21 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69242-1Published: 22 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69240-7Published: 20 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-4532
Series E-ISSN: 2662-4540
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 245
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Law, Philosophy of Law, Semiotics, European Politics