Europe, or The Infinite Task : A Study of a Philosophical Concept Paperback / softback
by Rodolphe Gasche
Part of the Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics series
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What exactly does "Europe" mean for philosophy today?
Putting aside both Eurocentrism and anti-Eurocentrism, Gasché returns to the old name "Europe" to examine it as a concept or idea in the work of four philosophers from the phenomenological tradition: Husserl, Heidegger, Patocka, and Derrida.
Beginning with Husserl, the idea of Europe became central to such issues as rationality, universality, openness to the other, and responsibility.
Europe, or The Infinite Task tracks the changes these issues have undergone in phenomenology in order to investigate "Europe's" continuing potential for critical and enlightened resistance in a world that is progressively becoming dominated by the mono-perspectivism of global market economics.
Rather than giving up on the idea of Europe as an anachronism, Gasché aims to show that it still has philosophical legs.
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- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:22/12/2008
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- ISBN:9780804760614
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:22/12/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780804760614
