Hanenberg, Peter2021-05-252021-05-2520189783868217414http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/33219The current crisis of Europe and the European Union is only one in a continuous chain of endless calamities. However,this crisis seems to be special. Europe has changed profoundly in recent times. Europe has reached its limits. Europe is no longer a project; Europe changed into the mode of defense. The present article tries to hint at hidden European narratives as a cultural answer to this crisis. These narratives are in need of a new concept of translation, which seems to emerge; a translation which simultaneously perceives and conceives of Europe in a “methodological cosmopolitanism”(Ulrich Beck): beyond its limits and far beyond any matter of language,responding to the crisis by translating itself.engThe ultimate crisis: narrating and translating Europebook part