Introduction : a pigs eye view of Europe -- 1.The discovery of Europe : some critical points -- 2.Montesquieu's North and South : history as a theory of Europe -- 3.Republics of letters : what is European literature? -- 4.Mme de Stael to Hegel : the end of French Europe
Summary
A postcolonial study of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century theorizations that have informed the dominant idea of Europe, a concept that has marginalized the southern "other" within it's own borders
