What Europeanness Means Today?
European Identity and Its Multicultural, Economic, and Social Dimensions
In an introduction to proceedings of the conference 'Images and Myths of Europe',
organised in 2002 at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Romano Prodi
wrote: "These 'Images and Myths of Europe' remind us that tomorrow's European Union
cannot be based exclusively on economics and that, if Europe is become a positive example
for the whole world, it is perhaps necessary to place greater emphasis on ethical and
aesthetic values. [...] Looking beyond day-to-day concerns, however elevated these may be,
id not the European Union too inclined to neglect these values? I am deeply convinced, and
profoundly worried, that this is the case."
In 2014 the editors of this volume tried to combine aspects of European identity and
its multicultural, economic, and social dimensions.
More precisely, the most problematical challenges of the European continent dealt
within this volume are
(1) the deficit of joint pan-European symbols,
(2) preventive European diplomacy
(3) environmental diplomacy and sustainable development practices as a new collective
security policy, and
(4) visual communication.
This volume and its eleven chapters are intended to make a contribution regarding these
non-mainstream European challenges which occupy the minds of Europeans in the 21st century
- beside trade barriers, upcoming financial crises, or the free pan-European market.
New Preface to the Book Series.
Europe of the 21st Century. Tolerance through Understanding
Nowy wstęp do serii wydawniczej.
Europe of the 21st Century. Tolerance through Understanding
Images and Myths of Europe - an Introduction
Bohdan Michalski, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
Felix Munch, University of Giessen, Germany
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
The University and Its Place in Forming the Visions of Europe
Jan Sadlak, Warsaw School of Social Psychology and Humanities, Poland
I. EUROPE - MULTICULTURAL DIMENSION
Qu‘est-ce que l‘europeanite aujourd‘hui?
Joanna Nowicki, l‘Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, France
The Classic Roots of Europe
Beata Klocek di Biasio, Cardinal Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland
II. NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY
Future Challenges for Europe and the World. Legacies from the Mediterranean Sea
and the Indian Ocean
Giovanni Bechelloni, University of Florence, Italy
Metaphors, Simulacra, and the European Imagination Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska,
Skarbek Graduate
School of Business Economics, Warsaw, Poland
The Crusades of Civil Religion - "Holocaust versus GULAG" and the
Competition of Negative Founding Myths of Europe
Felix Munch, University of Giessen, Germany
III. EUROPEANNESS: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DIMENSION
Youth and Socialism in Europe during the First Half of 20th Century: the Myth of
Europe through Peace and Pacifism Marie-Christine Bouneau, Michel de Montaigne -
Bordeaux 3 University, France
Corporate Social Responsibility - the European Union‘s Tool for Its Identity
Creation
Justyna Nakonieczna, University of Warsaw, Poland
European Perception of Energy Security and the EU-Russia Energy Relations
Kamila Pronińska, University of Warsaw, Poland
Europe - Divided or Sustainable?
Bohdan Michalski, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
IV. EUROPEANNESS IN THE WORLD
From False "Western Universalism" towards True "Universal
Universalism"
Krzysztof Gawlikowski, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
235 pages, Paperback