On the Artistic Perspectives of the European Union
On the Artistic Perspectives of the European Union

Summary/Abstract: The biggest problem of the European Union is that a true poet who would like to write a poem about it has not been born yet. The spiritual foundations of today's EU are not shaped by Christian priests, nor by marshals and generals. They are formed by EU politicians and bureaucrats who tell us the true from the false.Only banal and boring truths can meet the political and bureaucratic criteria of truth. Therefore, the truths of today's Union are banal and boring. They involve no mystery and therefore no metaphysics, in the depth of which individuals would be willing to lose themselves. If it is impossible to die for the Union, we thus need to ask if it is possible to live in the Union. The positive thesis of the article is the conviction that aesthetic experience might be the source of both the spiritual and life-giving mystery and hope.

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