In search of unity
Feb 17, 2022
3 minutes
The Pursuit of Europe: A History by Anthony Pagden Oxford University Press, 432 pages, £25
In his new book, The Pursuit of Europe, Anthony Pagden vigorously asserts the possibility – indeed, the necessity – of resuming and completing the “European project”. By this he means the creation not of a European superstate but “a new post-national order united in a political life based not upon the old shibboleths of nationalism and patriotism but upon a common body of values and aspirations”.
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