期刊名称：Cultura : International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology
印刷版ISSN：1584-1057
电子版ISSN：2065-5002
出版年度：2009
卷号：11
出版社：AXIS Fundation, University “Al.I.Cuza” Iassy
摘要：The main thesis of my article is that the viability of the European Union does
not depend so much on its political structure as on its being anchored in a culture-based
public sphere and on the establishment of a cultural European citizenship. The public
sphere could be defined as an unique world, characterized by consensus and cooperation,
in which only public goods can be sought and acquired, or as an unique world,
characterized by rivalry and competition, in which everyone could pursue their private
interests, but only if there is a consensus regarding an objective and fair procedure. In any
way, we cannot speak of a pluralism of public spheres . like the black public sphere, the
LGBT public sphere, etc. . but (at the most) a plurality of interests represented in the
public sphere, under the reserve of respecting a fair procedure, which allows the
expression of axiological judgments . The EU needs a progressive citizenship, from civil
citizenship to cultural citizenship, depending on the acquired skills, behavior and virtues.
One deserves cultural citizenship and have the right (or, perhaps the privilege) to manifest . in
the public sphere . a way of life and a cultural identity only if promote authentic values:
virtues, rationality, free will etc. The problematic aspects of the European media sphere
are obstacles on the way to establishing an authentic European cultural citizenship. They
can be kept under control by assuming a healthy reactionary attitude and associating every
element of change and contingent progress (speed, reductive simplicity, user.s solitude,
pictoriality, lateralness, data overload, immediacy, segmentation, social amnesia, etc.) with
an element of moderation and equilibrium. Only thus can the media contribute in the
making of a viable union of the European peoples, grounded on a well articulated
European cultural citizenship.
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