Women for Europe . A memoir of times and places of tenacious commitment
Luciana Rocchi
Researcher , and professor of history and philosophy
The distant memory of the Manifesto of Ventotene has gone through oblivion , occasions of awakening of interest and critical analysis - especially when the reasons for the realpolitik or instances of irrelevance of the role of the European Union have appeared so strong as to make us rethink the value of utopia . One of the “ characteristic features of modernity ”, wrote the philosopher Remo Bodei in the 1990s , would be “ the narrowing of the space of experience and the lowering of the horizon of expectations ”, in harder words “ the bankruptcy of utopias and hopes ”
( Bodei , 1995 ).
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