>>24653500 (OP)
I worked at the EU Commission (DG Comp and FPI) from 2019-24 and largely came to be known as the philosopher amongst many colleagues since I also wasn't from any national foreign ministry or cultural department who usually just represent national goals for their 1-2 year stints in every breath.
The EU is really the must cultured place on earth and most people don't know it; the EU's Brussels is beautiful.
One example: When Meloni got elected she was staunchly EU-sceptic. On her first visit to Brussels everyone shunned her, so they sent the Italian Commissioner to meet her. He convinced her that the EU is the medium the most nationalist leader would still use for their selfish national betterment by using Marinettis poetry as the discussion crux. 3 years later she is welcoming hundred of thousand of immigrants and adapting her legal system.
My conclusion, however, is: besides Giacomo Marramao there is no current writer who is worth even engaging with and criticizing for being wrong. The rest are pop philosophers like Robert Menasse who are just modern Berholt Brechts in their IQ, cultural character and goals. There are regular collections of essay books published by the EU of various commissioners, chief of staffs or College of Europe professors which are very useful historically. These bastards even wrote a Manifesto that all signed recently and no one in the media cared.
Ultimately, I would say, to focus on the EU philosophically don't bother reading any of these authors unless you live and work in that world and need the context. Instead, focus on Kant, German Idealism, Hegel and Heidegger. Koejeve
>>24653507 is only relevant in so far you want to see how French thought tried to reconcile itself practically again instead of veering off into irrelevance of marxist thought like Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari etc. The history of the EU should be read on various EU websites (the EU museum should be your orthodox history book and nothing else; especially nothing American.) I am serious about this. Best if you go to Brussels and visit the Museum across the parliament. Mind you also, the EU in spirit was thought of in northern Italy during WW2 in 1941 in the Ventotene Manifesto, and not after WW2 or via the industrial agreements or by any foreign power (and don't trust any English
>>24653511 to comment on the EU either.) Ironically, no one in Europe outside of Brussels understands the history of the EU.
The true EU might not come about for another 50 years; if the continent survives until then. For now the only relevant thinkers are in Italy but appreciate almost no attention at all outside their own country. (And I say this as an Irish-German that all my hope lies in Italian thinkers and universities keeping the thinking alive how a Heidegger would have encouraged it). For now it must be German-French industry and elites that get us out of their own created disasters and into a state where Europe can breathe freely again.
