Another Semester of our Discontent: The shrinking integration power of traditional cultural systems and the search for a substitute
Another Semester of our Discontent: The shrinking integration power of traditional cultural systems and the search for a substitute

Summary/Abstract: In the past, the Central European and Mediterranean region have produced or embraced various cultural systems, ranging from Classical, Jewish, Christian and Muslim to Socialist and Liberal-Democratic. These systems have provided identity and contributed to the cohesion of individual nations. Sometimes, cultural systems coexisted and cooperated, but more often they competed and fought one another. Christianity and Socialism, for example, have, by force or attraction, managed to integrate large groups of nations. Today, a number of these systems have lost their power to integrate and become ineffective. The main issue is: what happens to European integration after the traditional cultural systems have been exhausted?

• Details
• Contents