Europe in Post-Nihilism ? Between the Silence of Words and the Rhetoricity of Images
Europe in Post-Nihilism ? Between the Silence of Words and the Rhetoricity of Images

Summary/Abstract: The main argument of my essay is focused on the relation between the post-modern concept of cultural identity and our common intellectual history in Europe. Thus, I wish to begin with a short commentary on the post-modern condition of our sensibility that was changed under the impact of the cybernetic revolution of our times. Hence, I will ask myself, from a mere cultural point of view, which is the content and the meaning of EUROPE and what present identity is supposed to have. The first conclusion is that through the new globalised pattern of "media-culture" we can hardly speak about an actual European identity, since a general process of cultural homogenisation annihilated its heritage and memory. Secondly, I will mention the major consequences of the contemporary indifference towards the meaning of the question (philosophy) and regarding the mystery of redemption (theology), emphasising the fundamental risk of losing the experience of self-comprehension.

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