ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author analyzes the assumptions, historically contextualizing the decline of Europe. He develops the conditions for mutual learning, including the readiness to learn from the global South and the acceptance that the future world will be a post-European one. Europeans are being led to aspire to a new vision of Europe, even if they don’t exactly know why, nor how exactly such a vision will differ from the old vision whose profile they at best only vaguely grasp. Learning from the South may provide new approaches to a range of experiences in Europe, including the expansion of citizenship rights to non-nationals and immigrants, the tension between representative or delegative democracy and collective action by citizens, communities and groups affected by public policies. Finally, the author presents the world as a global school and illustrates some of the classes of unlearning and learning that might be taken.
