Europe Through the Looking-Glass
Europe Through the Looking-Glass

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to challenge this kind of beliefs. Without trying to diminish the importance of these differences between America and Europe, on the contrary emphasizing them, I will try to prove that these differences are to be perceived rather as correspondences. When you can find for each feature of the object A an opposed feature in the object B you have to question yourself is B is not merely the overturn image of A reflected in a mirror. As far as I am concern I’m persuaded that this is exactly the situation we have to face here. And looking at the American construction of “we”, we can figure out both the difficulties of the correspondent European construction and the way to outrun them. Further more I will try to prove that if the American Revolution was rightly perceived as the embodiment of the modernity (thus its success and exported model), the future Europe can become the embodiment of the postmodernity. The solution that the Europeans are under way to find in order to resist the postmodern challenge of globalization and multiculturalism (which, as a matter of fact, can be “read” as the old platonic aporia of the One and the Multiple) can become, as the American model at his time, a model to be export worldwide.

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