Abstract
From Crisis to «Europe»? The Past and the Future in History and Political Economy
I comment on six reviews of my book, Gekaufte Zeit, as published in the last issue of the Journal of Modern European History. My subjects are: how to write the history of a loss while avoiding being accused of «nostalgia»; how to take into account structure, agency and contingency when dealing with processes of patterned historical development and institutional change; how the «crisis of the tax state» might be related to the capitalist class conflict; why the crisis of the European Monetary Union will probably be with us for a long time to come, and why certain proposed solutions are not solutions at all; and what is to be made of the idea of a de-nationalized Pan-European democracy as a practical answer to that crisis.
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