No. 31 (2018): Cuadernos de pensamiento

In this themed issue we reflect on Europe. In its pages, more than ten authors, lawyers, political scientists, historians, and philosophers analyze different aspects of Europe’s present and its past. Among the themes explored are the contemplative attitude that made it possible in the past for Europe to be the stage of a major cultural development; the "disenchantment of the world" as a diagnosis of the social situation at the beginning of the 20th century; the notion of consensus proposed by Jürgen Habermas to alleviate the political challenge of pluralism in modern democracies; the existential crisis of the European Union, so evident that even politicians and analysts with opposite ideological backgrounds agree on its diagnosis, and on the urgent need for shock therapy; the deeply contradictory relationship between populism and democracy.These are some of the problems that Europe faces and they are approached in these pages from different perspectives, without forgetting the luminous and always current testimony of great Europeans, such as Edith Stein, Romano Guardini or Teresa of Ávila.

Published: 2018-10-10