#eBook Europe - Beyond the Euro by Prof. Emanuel Paparella

In perusing both Franck Biancheri and Francesco Tampoia’s articles on EU cultural identity, it struck me that while in some way they complement each other, they also reveal some common premises which I believe are worth analyzing briefly.

Biancheri’s article points out that there is a progression of identity which historically begins with blood (the family and the tribe) continues with soil (the nation and the Empire) and ends with values (the global nation of nations which is the US or EU or one still to come?). This is slightly reminiscent of Hegel’s rational historical progression: thesis, antithesis and synthesis. The final synthesis in turn becomes a thesis and the cycle repeats itself on a larger more comprehensive scale.

Therefore nobody knows the future identity of Europe since the process is still ongoing. What is worth noticing in this Hegelian scheme is that it assumes all along that the process is inevitable and to a certain extent deterministic. History goes forward as Hegel’s philosophy describes it and progress is inevitable and in fact necessary. There is a further assumption: that what comes at the end of an historical synthesis is always the best of all possible worlds.

Emanuel L. Paparella is the author of Hermeneutics in the Philosophy of G. Vico.
He holds a M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in Italian Humanism from Yale University, has studied Comparative Literature at New York University and has taught at various Universities.

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