Culture et démocratie

prémisses d'une identité européenne ?

Abstract

This article’s main objective is to consider the emergence of a European identity with culture and democracy as starting points. Where the European culture and the Union’s democratic principles seem to be the subject of a legal and political consensus, the European identity does not seem to have found its way yet. Is it precisely because the normative dimension of this consensus does not meet the specificities of the European realities? We will consider the concepts of social constructivism and cosmopolitan identity as a part of answer, in order to give a wider perspective to the concept of Identity and to see how these, coupled with the ideas of culture and democracy, could lead to the emergence of an European identity.