Abstract

COLEN, José  and  MOREIRA, Pedro. La Fuite en Avant?: The Rhetoric of Fear and the European Construction. Diacrítica [online]. 2015, vol.29, n.2, pp.217-230. ISSN 0807-8967.

This essay will analyze several famous speeches pronounced throughout the European Project across thirty years, from The Hague Congress until the late seventies of the twentieth century. It aims to explore the rhetoric of fear in the European Construction, that is, recurring statements on the fear of losing Europe, going back to an era of division. It will aim at answering this question through the analysis of the speeches of protagonists of the European Project (mainly members of the European institutions). This essay will analyze how this fear is part of the constitutive matrix of the European idea as Dennis de Rougemont pointed out.

Keywords : Europe; Isaiah Berlin; Denis de Rougemont; Technocracy; Nation; Rethoric.

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