Reflecting on Dahrendorf’s visions and observations on first, second and third Europe opens new fascinating avenues for the understanding of the present state of the Union and the future of liberalism. This essay recontructs and comments on two major historical processes that Dahrendorf witnessed and became involved with: 1) the transformation of first Europe in a much broader project, geographically and politically (la seconda Europa) and the connected process pursuing both widening and deepening on the road of third Europe. 2) the return to West of Communist Eastern Europe leading to 1989: a triumph of the liberal order for Dahrendorf but also a process leading into a deep valley of tears and eventually, in the end, to a democratic post-communist reality.
Le tre Europe di Ralf Dahrendorf.
Poggiolini
2019-01-01
Abstract
Reflecting on Dahrendorf’s visions and observations on first, second and third Europe opens new fascinating avenues for the understanding of the present state of the Union and the future of liberalism. This essay recontructs and comments on two major historical processes that Dahrendorf witnessed and became involved with: 1) the transformation of first Europe in a much broader project, geographically and politically (la seconda Europa) and the connected process pursuing both widening and deepening on the road of third Europe. 2) the return to West of Communist Eastern Europe leading to 1989: a triumph of the liberal order for Dahrendorf but also a process leading into a deep valley of tears and eventually, in the end, to a democratic post-communist reality.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
