Europe, or the infinite task : a study of a philosophical concept
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Europe, or the infinite task : a study of a philosophical concept
(Meridian : crossing aesthetics / Werner Hamacher & David E. Wellbery, editors)
Stanford University Press, 2009
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-408) and index
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Description
What exactly does "Europe" mean for philosophy today? Putting aside both Eurocentrism and anti-Eurocentrism, Gasche 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, Gasche aims to show that it still has philosophical legs.
Table of Contents
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Abbreviations iii Introduction iii @toc1:Part I: Edmund Husserl @toc2:1 Infinite Tasks 000 2 Universality and Spatial Form 000 3 Universality in the Making 000 @toc1:Part II: Martin Heidegger @toc2:4 Singular Essence 000 5 The Strangeness of Beginnings 000 6 The Originary World of Tragedy 000 @toc1:Part III: Jan Patoka @toc2:7 Care of the Soul 000 8 The Genealogy of Europe-Responsibility 000 @toc1:Part IV: Jacques Derrida @toc2:9 European Memories 000 10 This Little Thing that is Europe 000 11 De-Closing the Horizon 000 Epilogue 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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