FLUIDITY OF THE EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND THE ANTINOMIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Cover Image

IDENTITETSKA FLUIDNOST EVROPE I ANTINOMIJE EVROPSKE UNIJE
FLUIDITY OF THE EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND THE ANTINOMIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Author(s): Miljan B. Popić, Zlatan Hadžić
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Politics and society, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Politics and Identity
Published by: Filozofsko društvo THEORIA
Keywords: Europe; identity; culture; history; antinomies;

Summary/Abstract: Attempt to find a firm support for the very idea of Europe and for its identity leads us to a fluid and hard-to-determine term or definition that could clearly and precisely determine the identity basis of Europe. The layering that is obvious through historical review leads us to the seemingly paradoxical conclusion: it is precisely in this fluidity we could first come close to defining the identity of Europe. The identity of Europe can certainly be seen in its culture, which contained many elements of the spiritual in man (and which are not exhausted in either psychological or religious manifestations). This same culture which created everything that is instinctively understood as Europe in terms of history and identity today is marginalized without an existing alternative under the influence of politics, economics, and exhausted postmodernist enterprise which has anchored affect at the centre of its thought on power at the expense of idealized normative considerations.

  • Issue Year: X/2023
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 7-25
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bosnian
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