Europe and Its Idea
Europe and Its Idea

Summary/Abstract: All potential European politics are caught in this tension: when it looks for a European identity it denies the motor impulse of Europe, which is its opening; when it does not regard anything but the universal, it seems to dissolve what is European itself, its own capacity to distinguish itself. Now, Europe in its actual phase of history is a new form of post-national construction, or at least a form of advanced transnationalism, whereas the form of the nation state is in many ways a hindrance for the development of new processes of universalisation (egalitarian, juridical, moral, cultural). European universalism is perhaps here capable of proposing an end to this nationalist and ‘civilisational’ confrontation apparently without any solution.

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