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Europe, or The Infinite Task: A Study of a Philosophical Concept (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Rodolphe Gasché is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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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Author

Rodolphe Gasché

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804770958

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Anthropology