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9780804760607

Europe, or the Infinite Task

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  • ISBN13:

    9780804760607

  • ISBN10:

    0804760608

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-01-05
  • Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

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Summary

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 Tasktracks 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.

Author Biography

Rodolphe Gasché is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His most recent books are Views and Interviews: On "Deconstruction" in America (2007), and The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, Philosophy (Stanford, 2007).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. ix
Abbreviationsp. xi
Introductionp. 1
Infinite Tasksp. 21
Universality and Spatial Formp. 44
Universality in the Makingp. 64
Singular Essencep. 95
The Strangeness of Beginningsp. 124
The Originary World of Tragedyp. 144
Care of the Soulp. 211
"The Genealogy of "Europe-Responsibility"p. 237
European Memoriesp. 265
"This Little Thing That Is Europe"p. 287
De-closing the Horizonp. 303
Epiloguep. 339
Notesp. 349
Bibliographyp. 397
Indexp. 409
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