Abstract
For too long, the European Union has presented itself as a haven for bureaucrats, united by a hegemonic will practiced through the hyper-standardization of every aspect of social life. The result of this representation, so often weaponised by political forces hostile to the European project, has also been the reason the many images (normative acts, community projects, cultural initiatives etc.) that constitute the European discourse struggle to be recognized and read into a basic everyday narrative capable of shaping a European horizon of shared destinies. This book recognises the importance of the European discourse in its symbolic dimension and the need for it to be circulated via a wide-ranging narrative that is accessible to all citizens. As such, it explores the many images of Europe, or rather the many images through which European discourse is actually constituted in daily life, in search of their enunciative responsibility in today’s world for determining the current “State of the Union”.
This introduction has been written by the Authors in close cooperation. Please consider paragraphs 1 and 2 as authored by Francesco Mangiapane and paragraphs 3 and 4 by Tiziana Migliore.
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We consider such an idea (as Todorov (2019, pp. 18–20) and others remind us) as highly partial because it leaves out the contribution of other cultures and does not take into account the modelling role of the great European capitals in shaping European society.
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“Europe can no longer claim to dictate the world order, but it can offer an example of what it means to rediscover inhabitable ground” (Latour 2018, p. 101).
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P. Fabbri, “Appeal for a European policy on translation”, see Cassin (2012).
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Mangiapane, F., Migliore, T. (2021). Many Images for a Continent. An Introduction. In: Mangiapane, F., Migliore, T. (eds) Images of Europe. Law and Visual Jurisprudence, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69240-7_1
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