European Culture and Identity Between Crisis and Tradition: the Conservative Continental Discourse of the XX - Early XXI Centuries

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10.2991/assehr.k.201215.355How to use a DOI?

Keywords

communication, conservatism, crises, culture, Europe, identity, modernity, tradition

Abstract

The article addresses the contemporary crisis of European culture and identity and focuses on three answers to this crisis that were given by conservative continental discourse during the past hundred years. First, we take a look at the idea of the “Faustian” culture proposed by O. Spengler and shared by E. Jünger of the interbellum period and other writers of the German “Conservative revolution” in the 1920s. Then we expand our search beyond the theory of “Germanic roots” and study the trend of deriving the European identity from Homerian legacy, presented in particular by D. Venner. Finally, we examine the perennialists’ idea of the integral tradition which is supposed to be the origin of particular historical traditions as it is formulated in the works of R. Guénon, J. Evola and F. Schuon. Our research follows the methods of discursive analysis, history of philosophy, philosophy of history, comparative, socio-philosophical and culture studies.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Philipp Tagirov
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/18
TI  - European Culture and Identity Between Crisis and Tradition: the Conservative Continental Discourse of the XX - Early XXI Centuries
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 332
EP  - 341
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.355
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.355
ID  - Tagirov2020
ER  -