5 Responses to A Latin Empire versus German Hegemony? Agamben on contemporary Europe

1. Chathan says:

   March 28, 2013 at 10:55 pm

   Perhaps I’m being stupid but I wonder what the place of Greece, Poland and the former Yugoslavia would be in this newly demarcated Europe that Agamben so smugly draws out. Can’t help but be sceptical at this kind of analysis.

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   • stuartelden says:

     March 29, 2013 at 11:03 am

     I can’t answer for him, of course, but I suppose he’d suggest that Western Europe is really what is at stake here. It’s a terribly crude geographical analysis, that buys into all sorts of problematic assumptions about language, culture, and possibily religion too. As with many things here I posted it as it was interesting, not because I agreed with it.

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2. Ernst Laub says:

   May 13, 2013 at 1:46 pm

   I do not believe in a Latin Empire (Napoleon and Mussolini have already tried it). I rather think that an officially French speaking “Holy German Empire of European Nations” has much more chances. (A provocation from Switzerland: “La provocation, c’est ma vocation!”)

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4. Julian Ruella says:

   September 4, 2024 at 11:05 pm

   Why should Poland be involved in a neo-latin Empire? As to former Yugoslavia, that’s very clear to me. They belong in the mediterranean sphere, Slovenia and Bosnia included (Kosovo on the contrary has no reason whatsoever to exist as a separate state, but that would be irrelevant in a post-national context). Latin doesn’t mean the sphere of neolatin languages but the cultural world under roman (as a surrogate of Greece) rule, ie the Mediterranean. The question about Greece is preposterous, as it is the heart of whole business. I yhink the idea is great and necessary. It’s time to neighbours that never were, let alone blood related, part ways. Bit tires of anglo-saxon lackeys, or protestant and puritan scandinavian idiots. We have nothing in common.

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