Resumen de The European Form of Family Life: The Case of EU Citizenship
Considering European Union law through the prism of the “form of life” is part of an ef-fort to go beyond an analysis that most often adheres to the institutional foundations of law. The challenge is to show that the European legal discourse contains language that contributes to a re-configuration of the way we live and conceive our lives. Following this existential approach of the “form of life”, EU law can be seen as the place of a complex and subtle interaction between the lived and the imagined life. From this meeting comes the foundation as well as the transformation of our relationship to individual and collective life. The Article attempts to illustrate this interaction by unveiling how EU law and its interpretation express, often implicitly, a way of practicing and representing family life, its formation, functioning, and the values which drive it, thus giving birth to a European social imaginary in family matters.
