Abstract

In reaction to the manifesto signed’ in May 2003 by Habermas and Derrida, calling for « an appealing vision of the Europe to come », this article identifies six blind spots which make the dominant forms of cosmopolitanism backward-looking . It then attempts to turn them around: front duty to power, from a sacralization of Justice to the poster of the lass, front Super-Nation-States to globalized regulation, front identity politics to imitative invention, from Eurocentrism to the interaction of the multitudes, and from Kant to Spinoza. The goal being to invent a post-identitary Europe, which would situate itself beyond moralism and confederalism