what is european? (8)

London, 2006

Since the late 1960s, the western world knew an intellectual movement that questioned old certainties such as modernisation, progress, reason and positivism. A new generation, more informed and critic become aware of environmental, Human Rights or historical problems. Far from being the triumph of civilisation over irrationality, tyranny and violence, Europe becomes a metaphor for post-imperial and self-punishment. If values as liberty, democracy, tolerance or peace are being considered as part of the European Union, Europe is also scepticism, contradictions and diversity. Did European Union born from an European nihilism?