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Hero worship is culturally hardwired into our psyche and cultivated in our early development by our experience of our parents a daddy and mommy who are all powerful, all beautiful, all everything. Our eventual awakening to their frailty only intensifies our searches elsewhere for other heroes both in private and public life. And so it is, too, in our intellectual life: St Sigmund, St Karl, St Jurgen et cetera Chacun a son Saint For many, history is still a story of kings, and prime ministers, and generals, and statesmen (and stateswomen). And so it is, too, in our little puddle of European law. For many it is a story of a hero, the European Court of Justice: A St George, armed with constitutional hermeneutics, who slaughtered the dragon of national protectionism, pettiness and what else. The spillover from all of this is that awful, ubiquitous culture of celebrityship which has also invaded, indeed conquered, the long-desecrated halls of academia.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government International relations

• Full title: European Union
• Subtitle: An Ongoing Process of Integration
• Author: Jaap W. de Zwaan, Frans A. Nelissen, Jan H. Jans, Steven Blockmans
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 371
• EAN: 9789067041874
• ISBN: 9067041874
• ID: 02719749
• Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press
• Weight: 765 g
• Dimensions: 245 × 160 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. December 2004

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