ABOUT THE REGENERATION OF THE EUROPEAN TYPE OF CIVILIZATION
ABOUT THE REGENERATION OF THE EUROPEAN TYPE OF CIVILIZATION

Summary/Abstract: Europe is an omnipresent topic of public debate, but the discussion runs wrong due to two main errors:1. Today, Europe and the European Union would mean one and the same thing, called “European project”. This misconception relies on error 2. The scientific reconstruction of European history that has led to this state of affairs would be cum grano salis consensual. - The intention of the following text is to give some hints to falsify these presuppositions. The key argument is the disclosure of the “half empiricism” which is the congenital defect of occidental philosophy and science, mainly interested in liberating cognition from troubling influences and subjective feelings. With reference to the New Phenomenology founded by Hermann Schmitz (2009, 2011), the plan to regenerate Europe will have to begin with telling, suggestive impressions of the pre-reflexive corporeal experience, paradoxically telling more than one can say. It is a sensitivity for specific situations which have made the European type of civilization. The text explains that learning an unknown European language on the base of encorporation (Einleibung) during the “European semester” will help to regenerate this European sensitivity. To be successful, the new programme will be independent from the main antagonists: globalist interests, associated political forces and anti-European ideologies. In the focus of renewal are the smaller European countries, their languages and their contribution to the European style of civilization, hidden by the “big five” Germany, UK, France, Spain and Italy. In the phenomenologically informed perspective of the new MONTAIGNE student exchange programme, language acquisition will be understood as world acquisition. The “European semester” will be entirely dedicated to it.

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