EUROPE AS REVERSED “PHILOSOPHICAL GEOGRAPHY”
EUROPE AS REVERSED “PHILOSOPHICAL GEOGRAPHY”

Summary/Abstract: The European social and cultural dynamics speaks for itself when it comes to redistributing chances for tracing an identity, in a complicated space prone to both centrifugal and centripetal pressures. Starting with Leibniz, Saint-Simon or Hugo, Europe had been a way to become fused in “body” and spirit. Recently, we found ourselves relinquishing the “European fraternity” ideal, choosing the path of a hardened political contest instead. In the 18th and 19th centuries, a “philosophical geography” had been contrived in order to differentiate the civilized West in relation to a barbaric East. Could we simply invert it, in order to better suit the idea of a European identity that transgresses purely conventional space?

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