Les stratifications culturelles de l’imaginaire européen
The Cultural Stratifications of European Imagination

Summary/Abstract: European imagination is structured through the superposing of several internally-coherent layers. New ways of thinking are always grafted on preexisting ones, without totally suppressing the latter, despite their initial conflicts. Along this axis of continuity, pagan mythology is partially reintroduced in Christianity, in its turn, the product of Judaism, forming an intricate mixture. The advent of new values has been, since the end of the Middle Ages, a steady characteristic of the period known as modernity, being reinforced nowadays by the concept of “technoculture”. This long history and its particulars allow for the identification of guidelines for a European culture, especially by comparison with other continents (Asia, Africa) or some more recent cultures (North America, above all).

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