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FROM THE IRONIES OF IDENTITY TO THE IDENTITIES OF IRONY - Coggle Diagram
FROM THE IRONIES OF IDENTITY TO THE IDENTITIES OF IRONY
United Europe
Sense of belonging to Europe was more of a wager than a reference to a given reality
Convengo Volta
Conference on Europe in 1931 under the auspices of the Fascist regime in ROme and the projects presented by Goebbles and Von Ribbentrop for a “new Europe” under NAzi domination
1923 Proposal for United States of Europe made to the League of Nations by Aristide Brian’s
New wave of Europeanism
The manifesto di Ventotene
The idea of Europe and European identity
Post war period 1957 European Economic Community
Maastricht Treaty 1992
New social, cultural, ethic, and regional movements
Declaration On European Identity
Identical attitude toward life
Converging on the creation of a society responding to the needs of individuals
The principles of representative democracy
The rule of law
Social justice
Respect for human rights
European Ideology —> oriental despotism
Guilt linked with the experiences of totalitarianism and decolonialization
European Multiplicity
Pattern of insistence on a characterization
Such diversity in Europe, wars will always occur
Languages in Europe is expressed in terms of suffering and alienation
Two meanings
European identity
Belonging to the continent is not only interpreted as being dominant
Hierarchically organizes a whole set of other values
Identity
Include in the category of European the “other”
Multiple identity
Undifferentiated and undefined
Gesture of radical discontinuity needs to be made before one can make a credible claim that diversity is valuable
Eurocentric Attitudes
What characterized the experience of the Europeans was also the experience of its victims.
For many years European identity was form though contrast, such as “Orientalism” versus “Occidentalism”
It’s not a question of eliminating the West but questioning it deeply, and of becoming aware of the limits of its humanism
Europe and its institutions to act as intermediaries between local, regional, national, and global levels
Pan-Europeans
Anti-Europeans (Eurosceptics)
Has always recognized itself as a cape of headland
Small prominent Peninsula which witches at all costs to represent itself as “mankind” progress with respect to Asia
Center of Konwledge, and accepting that one’s position can be found only on the other side
Derrida
“To be men of universality”
Divides the European conscience: to accept foreigners by assimilating them or to accept their otherness