Locating Europe: a figure, a concept, an idea?
"Is the idea of Europe outdated? The concept of European unity, the animating spirit of the European Union, seems increasingly fragile in the face of far-right populist movements. In Locating Europe , Rodolphe Gasché attempts to answer the question of how to think about Europe. Is it a figure, a concept, or an idea? Is there anything still compelling and urgent about the idea of Europe? By looking at phenomenologist and postphenomenological thinkers in the second half of the 20th century, Gasch…
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- Full title :Locating Europe : a figure, a concept, an idea? / Rodolphe Gasché.
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"Is the idea of Europe outdated? The concept of European unity, the animating spirit of the European Union, seems increasingly fragile in the face of far-right populist movements. In Locating Europe , Rodolphe Gasché attempts to answer the question of how to think about Europe. Is it a figure, a concept, or an idea? Is there anything still compelling and urgent about the idea of Europe? By looking at phenomenologist and postphenomenological thinkers in the second half of the 20th century, Gasché reveals that Europe is more than just one geographical and cultural entity. The idea of Europe is based on common foundations: a distinctive conception of reason, of self-criticism, of responsibility, freedom, equality, human rights, and democracy, and it is these foundations that are under threat. In Locating Europe: A Figure, a Concept, an Idea? Gasché engages the philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Karl Jaspers, Karl Löwith, and others, focuses on the most significant philosophical representations of Europe, and explores the potential, and especially the limits, of the notion of Europe"--
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- Publication Date:2021.
- Edition:First edition
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- Publisher(s):Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication:Bloomington, Indiana
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021.
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- Description:1 online resource.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780253054845, 0253054842, 9780253054869, 0253054869
- oclc:on1198988565
- LC Classification:B105.E68
- Dewey Decimal:940.01
Table of Contents
Archipelago -- Without a horizon -- In light of light -- The form of the concept -- Axial time -- Eastward trajectories -- Feeling anew for the idea of Europe -- An idea in the Kantian sense? -- Responsibility, a strange concept -- An immemorial remainder : the legacy of Europe -- Beyond the idea of Europe.
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