Ever closer union and the philosophical history of Europe
Glendinning, S.
(13 April 2023)
Ever closer union and the philosophical history of Europe.
LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog.
(13 April 2023)
Ever closer union and the philosophical history of Europe.
LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog.
What role does philosophy play in accounts of European history? Simon Glendinning writes that European history has never been an exclusively empirical question and has always also been philosophical. Even today, many of the key political differences over European integration remain inseparable from a contest over profoundly philosophical divergences concerning the meaning of ‘ever closer union’.