Will Whatever It Takes Be Enough? Dewey, the Crisis of the EU, and the Need for an (Inter)nationalizing of Education

The purpose of this paper is to argue that the ideas marshalled by Dewey in his writings during World War I can be useful to engage with some challenges currently faced by the European Union. In particular, in the first part, I will examine –through a philosophical-educational lens –his articles published to support the US intervention: while not denying that Dewey may have indulged in too rosy a view of American history, an emphasis is rather laid on the fruitfulness of his notion of internationalism as a kind of American principle of nationality in opposition to the typically European nationalism. In the second part, I will endeavor to show how a Deweyan conceptual platform can be serviceable both to make sense of the post-war EU project in terms of a process of cosmopolitan Europeanization and to offer some perspectives from which to look at its contemporary predicament