Ion Copoeru, Alina Noveanu, Niels Weidtmann (eds.), Europe – Between Idea, Imagination and Reality , Königshausen & Neumann, 2026. The idea of ​​Europe is based on fundamental philosophical concepts: these include freedom, democracy, the appreciation of the individual, and the appeal to reflexivity and critical reason. Europe's turbulent history has shown that freedom can degenerate into dictatorship, democracy into anarchy, and rationality can be misused as a pretext for spreading ideologies. The provocations facing Europe today (the threat to democracy from far-right positions, the climate crisis and its social consequences, the war in the East) affect all European countries, albeit in different ways. European philosophy, since its inception situated in the tension between myth and logos, demands of every individual both self-awareness and self-care, as well as the justification for the positions they defend for the good of the community. What is the state of Europe's self-awareness? What is the current self-understanding of Europeans? This volume attempts to provide a philosophical framework for these questions, from which new approaches to solutions can emerge.