Sull’identità europea. Riflessioni a partire dagli studi di simbolica politica di Claudio Bonvecchio e Giulio Maria Chiodi

On European identity. Reflections starting from the political symbolic studies of Claudio Bonvecchio and Giulio Maria Chiodi

Abstract

European identity, since its origins, has undergone a dual spirit, which constitutes at the same time its strength and its weakness. Universalism and pluralism of its cultures, its heroic matrix and its degeneration into the technocracy of the merchants are only two of the possible juxtapositions in which the paradoxical essence of Europe is expressed. Nonetheless, this aporia is exactly the creator of a millenary culture, founded on symbols, myths and narrations: only by rediscovering these ones Europe will be able to re-build its role in the globalized world.