Courage and inspiration are needed to renew the European dream and rediscover the purpose of a European civilisation project which responds to the cultural and moral traditions rooted in the vision of its founding fathers. A mobilising and forward-looking interaction between globalisation and Europeanisation can provide some answers in the emerging global transnational era. This book offers an interdisciplinary in-depth analysis of the relation between globalisation and Europeanisation from a value driven and human-centric perspective. It proposes a broad, diversified and innovative framework and analysis of concepts based on a human rights, cosmopolitan and public goods perspective of sustainable statehood. This approach is applied to interconnected policy areas and issues that are crucial to Europe's future, such as external relations, culture, intercultural dialogue, citizenship, education and territorial cooperation. The book's multidisciplinary readings and critical reflections address the complex issues at play in today's European societies, which require sustainable, cohesive and responsible answers at conceptual and policy level.

Cet ouvrage se propose d'explorer de facon critique le concept de culture, au sens anthropologique, au travers de ses differents impacts dans la vie sociale et politique. En partant de la definition de l'etre humain et de la separation entre nature et culture, Albin Wagener evoque de facon progressive les problemes sociaux, ethniques et politiques poses par un concept de culture qui ne fait que dissimuler des enjeux de pouvoir et representer une version plus politiquement correcte de la notion de race. Au fur et a mesure de cette exploration critique, qui s'appuie sur des travaux varies, l'auteur propose d'abandonner purement et simplement le concept de culture et d'envisager une theorie permettant de remplacer le vide ainsi laisse, grace a une theorie des systemes d'existence, capable d'embrasser la complexite de la vie quotidienne tout en evitant les ecueils de discrimination.