A tribe called Europe? An “emotional” perception of reality

• Authors: Rothert, Agnieszka

Abstracts

EN

A main goal of this essay is the analysis of the contemporary phase of evolution of European “organism” by using approaches from political science and neuroscience. The transdisciplinary perspective allows for better understanding of finer points of human behavior which can be lost only in political science analysis. My simple and obvious assumption is that politics is about people. Human beings create groups, communities, etc. If it is so, maybe we should start with looking more closely into mechanisms of the most important part of ourselves. The brain. It is responsible for all human behaviour. Another crucial point is the connection between humans and environment. The concept of co-evolution is fundamental and very useful when we want to show intertwining relations between interiority (brain, body) and externality (behaviour, social and political structures). Europe may be the very context for this analysis, but it is most of all our humanity.

Keywords

EN

emotions; brain; behavior; co-evolution; cooperation; Europe; politics

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Przegląd Europejski
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 2017 (46)(4)
• Pages: 118-131

Dates

published

2019-05-30

Contributors

author

Rothert, Agnieszka

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31338/1641-2478pe.4.17.6