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Hans-Peter Geissen

Hans-Peter Geissen lives in Koblenz (Germany), at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle rivers. Interested in all what concerns faunistics (data about animal species) of the Midrhine region, he is the author of many scientific publications on these issues. He bent on the Turkish issue with a very specific approach so as « to prevent a self-definition of Europe on the grounds of historical or religious mythologies. »

Articles de cet auteur (35)

About the identity of Europe : why it is a problem ? (1)
25 October 2006

Certainly, we may assume that everybody who speaks about Europe knows that “Erep” is an ancient Syrian (Semitic) term meaning sunset, or west ; and that its opposite is “Assu”, the sunrise, or east.
Hans-Peter Geissen lives in Koblenz (Germany), at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle rivers. Interested in all what concerns faunistics (data about animal species) of the Midrhine region, he is the author of many scientific publications on these issues. He bent on the Turkish issue with a (...)
Europe-Turkey : a matter of coherence (4)
26 juillet 2006

Discussions about European identity and the accession of Turkey to the EU are frequently based on selected traits of historical and/or ideological developments. And so it is with respect to the precarious self-definition of Turkey as a nation-state, too. But both may be based on material grounds as well, which in turn may shift the arrangement of ideas about the meaning of specific historical events. Hans-Peter Geissen offers to TE’s readers a very specific reflection on the course of the (...)
Europe - Turkey : a matter of coherence (3)
19 juillet 2006

Discussions about European identity and the accession of Turkey to the EU are frequently based on selected traits of historical and/or ideological developments. And so it is with respect to the precarious self-definition of Turkey as a nation-state, too. But both may be based on material grounds as well, which in turn may shift the arrangement of ideas about the meaning of specific historical events. Hans-Peter Geissen offers to TE’s readers a very specific reflection on the course of the (...)
Europe - Turkey : a matter of coherence (2)
12 juillet 2006

Discussions about European identity and the accession of Turkey to the EU are frequently based on selected traits of historical and/or ideological developments. And so it is with respect to the precarious self-definition of Turkey as a nation-state, too. But both may be based on material grounds as well, which in turn may shift the arrangement of ideas about the meaning of specific historical events. Hans-Peter Geissen offers to TE’s readers a very specific reflection on the course of the (...)
Europe -Turkey : a matter of coherence (1)
10 juillet 2006

Discussions about European identity and the accession of Turkey to the EU are frequently based on selected traits of historical and/or ideological developments. And so it is with respect to the precarious self-definition of Turkey as a nation-state, too. But both may be based on material grounds as well, which in turn may shift the arrangement of ideas about the meaning of specific historical events. Hans-Peter Geissen offers to TE’s readers a very specific reflection on the course of the (...)