Alternatives Global Local Political · 1998 · 167 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesInternational LawInternational OrganizationsIntersectionalitySelfCultural IdentityEuropean IdentityEuropean IntegrationEuropean LawLegal IdentityNational IdentityEuropean Cultural IdentityEuropean Identity DiscoursesEuropean Identity FormationEuropean Political IdentityEuropean UnityPlural Identity
No cultural identity presents itself as the opaque body of an untranslatable idiom, but always, on the contrary, as the irreplaceable inscription of the universal in the singular, the unique testimony to the human essence and to what is proper to man. Each time, it has to do with the discourse of responsibility: I have, the unique I has, the responsibility of testifying for universality. Each time, the exemplarity of the example is unique. This is why it can be put into series and formalized into a law. 1