Post-Sovereignty and Post-Hegemony Europe

Abstract

This essay recalls the original plans on which the draft of the current European Union was discussed. As it is known these projects were written after the trauma of the second world war and are due to the pen of Kojève and Jünger. The original approaches of these thinkers implied the precise attention to the cultural, religious and moral traditions of the European States, and not only to the economic questions. This essay wishes to contrast these refl ections with the course of events that began after the Nixon–Mao interview and the beginning of neoliberal globalization. In front of it, it claims an inevitable return to the cultural conditions that were at the origin of the European project, demanding a world not crossed by hegemony and sovereignty in an absolute sense.