Description: The current European Union is too often presented as the perfect realisation of a Europe of the people and freedom. The present essay overturns the common way to understand this reality.
Brief description: Diego Fusaro (Turin, 1983) is an attentive scholar of the philosophy of history and the structures of historical temporality, with particular interest for the thought of Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Gentile and Gramsci, as well as for German "conceptual history". He recently published Europe and Capitalism. Regaining the Future (Mimesis International). He is also the editor of the internet project "La filosofia e i suoi eroi" (www.filosofico.net).