Images of Europe : Springer : 9783030692421 : 3030692426 : 22 May 2022 : This book deals with the fundamental semantics of images of Europe, which consist of valences, mirror beliefs and affectivities. This is why it relaunches the importance of the European discourse in its symbolic dimension. As such, it explores the many images of Europe, or rather the many images through which European discourse is actually constituted in daily life, in search of their enunciative responsibility in today's world for determining the current ?State of the Union?. The identity of the European continent is based on a millenary tension between universalism and particularism: images of Europe have in fact been alternately inspired, over the centuries, by a model of homogeneity ? Roman and Carolingian imperial disposition ? on the one hand, and by a model of fragmentation ? a Europe of city-states, municipalities, regions and small fatherlands ? on the other. In the European Union, a political and economi