In this commentary, the author continues his first reflections on European Union cultural history, which opened up this field and introduced the theory of ‘paradoxical coherence’. Revisiting sociological and cultural-historical works by Beck and Gumbrecht, he argues that the EU can be seen as a ‘cultural shared risk community’, the sources of identity-building and sense-making consisting of the European citizens’ shared cultural risks and fears. From this he suggests a new agenda for cultural-historical research on the EU.

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什么是欧盟？文化共享风险社区！

在这篇评论中，作者继续他对欧盟文化史的首次反思，开辟了这一领域，并引入了“矛盾连贯”理论。重温贝克和古布雷希特的社会学和文化历史著作，他认为欧盟可以被视为一个“文化共同风险社区”，是欧洲公民共同的文化风险和恐惧组成的身份构建和意义建构的来源. 由此，他提出了一个关于欧盟文化历史研究的新议程。