By analyzing the case study of the 2013 edition of the “Festival of Europe” held in Florence, the essay ex-plores the limits and potential forms of participa-tion in European contexts as they occur on special “celebratory” ...

People define their own behaviour on the basis of their perception of Others, as well as of the expectations they have towards them, paying particular attention to the socio-cultural context of belonging and the reference ...

The debate on the totalitarian phenomenon was started by European scholars from diverse intellectual backgrounds who produced analysis and interpretive models in the 1930s and 1940s, often transforming their own personal ...

The soul of Europe has to be considered in unity. Without this idea of unity, Europe (by definition) would not exist. But where does this unity of Europe lie? This unity might lie in the concept of civility, or in ...

Are Germans still pro-Europe? And, even more, may the current behaviour of German Government be called pro-Europe? This work deals with this interesting topic analyz-ing, on one hand, the European policy of German govern-ment, ...

The article aims to analyse the project of a cosmopolitan Europe and to show the validity not of its rejection, but rather, of its betrayal. My argument is that Europe has both historical and normative character-istics of ...

This research article proposes a confrontation between two founding narratives of different ideas or «models» of community: on the one hand, the Gemeinschaft thought by Tönnies and reworked by Schmitt and, on the other, ...

The Financial Crisis of 2008 has been especially hard on European Southern countries which, although some cautious signs of recovery, are still struggling to find theirway out of it and return to previous levels of ...