The Holy Southern Empire: a proposal for Southern European anarcho-papism

Federico Campagna — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:20:05 +0000

Cura hominum potuit tantam componere Romam,

quantam non potuit solvere cura deum.

Hildebertus, Carmina Minora, no.36

Beyond the Latin Empire

A few months ago, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben published a short article on the opportunity to rethink the EU along its cultural traditions, rather than its economic dogmas. Agamben based his article on the work of the Russian-French philosopher Alexandre Kojeve, who presented the case for the political union of France, Italy and Spain in a culturally homogeneous Latin Empire which was to be politically and economically lead by France, and opposed to the Anglo-German block.

Despite the violent public reaction that followed Agamben’s piece, I would claim that, if Agamben is to be judge guilty of something, it is not of having been too provocative, but not enough.

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The Holy Southern Empire: a proposal for Southern European anarcho-papism