Pilietinis europietiškumas: nacionalumo dekonstravimas ir Kitas
Civil Europeanness: Deconstruction of the National Identity and the Other

Summary/Abstract: After liberation Lithuanian society and Lithuanian nation expected to build nation state and to consolidate and recreate national identity at the same time denouncing the Soviet legacy, however European integrational processes promoted the political and cultural attitude to create new European civil identity. The author of this article examines the deconstructional impact on the debates about the Idea of Eorope and the efforts to deconstruct all types of identities, including national identity, and national essentialism. Some features of new European identity are highligted by critical analysis of the meditations of J. Derrida on today’s Europe, his and J. Habermas’ joint efforts to ground the necessity of European Constitution and base new European identity on constitutional patriotism, solidarity, unconditional openness to the Other and the feeling of common destiny. The article examines the radical criticism of the Idea of Europe and europeanness provided by G. Agamben and A. Amin. The author of this article comes to conclusion that the efforts to create and embed European civil identity disconnected from national identity features and feelings and national state power disavow the possibility of promoting a manifest European identity politics and disclaim the idea of europeanness, because of the idea of multi-ethnicity on which these efforts are based.

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