The current crisis started in the US in 2008 with the popping of the subprime mortgage bubble. From the US the crisis spread all over the world and soon affected Europe. During the last years, the effect of the crisis has been devastating: it has threatened the existence of the Euro and, consequently, the existence of the European Community itself. Departing from this scenario, the book gathers the voices of national and international scholars from different disciplines (historians, sociologists, political scientists), as well as representatives of civil society, committed to developing an intense and lively dialogue on the causes of the crisis. The book also treats the significance individual and collective actors attribute to the crisis, the ways in which it enters into individual choices, influencing their trajectories, as well as the changes it has provoked in collective behavior and in political and social institutions within the European and US context. The richness of debate within the book makes a fundamental contribution to an understanding of the crisis, starting from a genealogical reconstruction of the category. The lesson drawn from reading is that the current crisis puts us in front of radical questions, on the fate of our societies and on the profound meaning of man and his ethical choices in our time.

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BORGHINI, ANDREA
2015-01-01

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The current crisis started in the US in 2008 with the popping of the subprime mortgage bubble. From the US the crisis spread all over the world and soon affected Europe. During the last years, the effect of the crisis has been devastating: it has threatened the existence of the Euro and, consequently, the existence of the European Community itself. Departing from this scenario, the book gathers the voices of national and international scholars from different disciplines (historians, sociologists, political scientists), as well as representatives of civil society, committed to developing an intense and lively dialogue on the causes of the crisis. The book also treats the significance individual and collective actors attribute to the crisis, the ways in which it enters into individual choices, influencing their trajectories, as well as the changes it has provoked in collective behavior and in political and social institutions within the European and US context. The richness of debate within the book makes a fundamental contribution to an understanding of the crisis, starting from a genealogical reconstruction of the category. The lesson drawn from reading is that the current crisis puts us in front of radical questions, on the fate of our societies and on the profound meaning of man and his ethical choices in our time.
2015
978-886741-5144
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