History is not over yet, as some may have inferred from a questionable reading of Hegel. As a matter of fact, we are once again facing fights, difficulties, profound historical alternatives and dilemmas.
Europe has registered many changes and renewal, but some old demons (social segregation, authoritarianism, mysticism) reappear now - against the background of huge technical development, democratization, and scientific revolutions - and new impulses are indispensable. Therefore, the question arises whether its cultural foundations should not be revisited. Under the impact of globalization and digitalization, the integration of the world is going on, but what happens to identities,
from the personal ones up to the national identities? What about the existing democracies in societies of increased complexity? People's dependence on life contexts is greater, but should universal values be abandoned under the circumstances? How could a guiding role in a world of a new complexity be conceived? Where is the present world heading to? What is the meaning of current history?