"National competences are not something one can waive away with a magic wand and reassign to international institutions. Limited sovereignty all round is the road we must travel." Professor Simon Glendinning (LSE) responds to our essay "Life After Europe"
The opportunity provided by a philosophically informed approach to the future of European union is, as the authors suggest, to help liberate discussion from domination by narrowly “economic thinking which sees growth, expansion and accumulation” as the be all and end all of Europe’s ambitions. However, I found the authors’ assessment of “what is needed” or “required” in its place to remain too stubbornly close to a classical form of rational cosmopolitical thinking that is no less "all or nothing" – and which, I will argue here, in wanting everything can get nothing. [read the full piece]
The opportunity provided by a philosophically informed approach to the future of European union is, as the authors suggest, to help liberate discussion from domination by narrowly “economic thinking which sees growth, expansion and accumulation” as the be all and end all of Europe’s ambitions. However, I found the authors’ assessment of “what is needed” or “required” in its place to remain too stubbornly close to a classical form of rational cosmopolitical thinking that is no less "all or nothing" – and which, I will argue here, in wanting everything can get nothing. [read the full piece]
RSS Feed