Contents

Contents
New Preface to the Book Series.
Europe of the 21st Century. Tolerance through Understanding 5
Nowy wstęp do serii wydawniczej.
Europe of the 21st Century. Tolerance through Understanding 8
Images and Myths of Europe – an Introduction
Bohdan Michalski, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
Felix Münch, University of Giessen, Germany 11
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
The University and Its Place in Forming the Visions of Europe
Jan Sadlak, Warsaw School of Social Psychology and Humanities, Poland 19
I. EUROPE – MULTICULTURAL DIMENSION
Qu’est-ce que l’européanité aujourd’hui?
Joanna Nowicki, l'Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France 27
The Classic Roots of Europe
Beata Klocek di Biasio, Cardinal Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland 35
II. NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY
Future Challenges for Europe and the World. Legacies from
the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean
Giovanni Bechelloni, University of Florence, Italy 57
Metaphors, Simulacra, and the European Imagination
Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska, Skarbek Graduate
School of Business Economics, Warsaw, Poland 78
The Crusades of Civil Religion – “Holocaust versus GULAG”
and the Competition of Negative Founding Myths of Europe
Felix Münch, University of Giessen, Germany 91
III. EUROPEANNESS: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DIMENSION
Youth and Socialism in Europe during the First Half of 20th Century:
the Myth of Europe through Peace and Pacifism
Marie-Christine Bouneau, Michel de Montaigne –
Bordeaux 3 University, France 117
Corporate Social Responsibility – the European Union’s Tool
for Its Identity Creation
Justyna Nakonieczna, University of Warsaw, Poland 132
European Perception of Energy Security and the EU–Russia Energy Relations
Kamila Pronińska, University of Warsaw, Poland 153
Europe – Divided or Sustainable?
Bohdan Michalski, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Poland 179
IV. EUROPEANNESS IN THE WORLD
From False “Western Universalism” towards True “Universal Universalism”
Krzysztof Gawlikowski, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Poland 197