Afterword: The Crisis of Europe: A Case of Creative Destruction — Descandalizing the Crisis of Europe as an Experimental Case of Social Evolution

  • Klaus Eder
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Abstract

The unfinished project of a European society makes Europe extremely vulnerable to the systemic disorders of capitalist markets and failures of governing such systemic disorders by political institutions. Europe is extremely sensitive to these dysfunctionalities, since it has built its mode of integration upon expert-based governance and upon providing the freedoms necessary for the working of markets. Therefore, any crisis emerging from these two pillars of European integration must appear to the people as a crisis of Europe. The meaning of the notion of a crisis of Europe remains unclear. This is no more than stating that people in Europe are afraid of these dysfunctionalities and attribute the problems resulting from it to ‘Europe’. The crisis of Europe has one effect: to move the distribution of positive to negative identifications with Europe among its people from the positive towards the negative pole.

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Civil Society Social Relation European Society Social Movement National Society 
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