HIDDEN EUROPEAN FEDERALISM AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR BUILDING AN ORDER WITHOUT POLITICAL FREEDOM Cover Image

SKRIVENI EVROPSKI FEDERALIZAM U SLUŽBI IZGRADNJE PORETKA BEZ POLITIČKE SLOBODE
HIDDEN EUROPEAN FEDERALISM AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR BUILDING AN ORDER WITHOUT POLITICAL FREEDOM

Author(s): Bojan Kovačević
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political history, Politics and society, Social Theory, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Filozofsko društvo Srbije
Keywords: order; freedom; Schmitt; Kant; hidden revolution; democracy; EU; crisis;

Summary/Abstract: After the Second World War a new idea of a European order was born in the minds of today’s EU founding fathers. The way it has provided statesman a rare opportunity for political action, the European integration has given to scholars a chance to learn something new about the old problem of building of an order. Still, maybe there is not anything new that the experience of the integration process among European states teaches us. Maybe, it is needed only to unveil the old truth that what it takes to establish an order is always a decision of a sovereign ruler unrestrained by society’s conflicting demands. Who to believe, Kant or Carl Schmitt? Is there anything historically new that the European integration tells us about political community building or are Bodin and his insights into the nature of state and law still all it takes for understanding the old problem? In this article we search an answer to these questions.

  • Issue Year: 61/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 63-80
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian