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Europe, or the Infinite Task: A Study of a Philosophical Concept

Europe, or the Infinite Task: A Study of a Philosophical Concept

Hardcover

Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0804760608
ISBN13: 9780804760607
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Dec 22 2008
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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, Patočka, 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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