Europe, or The Infinite Task: A Study of a Philosophical Concept
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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, 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.
Rodolphe Gasché
Rodolphe Gasché is SUNY Distinguished Professor & Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His interests concern the history of aesthetics, German Idealism and Romanticism, phenomenological and post-phenomenological thought, hermeneutics, and critical theory. His most recent books include Europe, or The Infinite Task: A Study of a Philosophical Concept (Stanford University Press, 2009); Un Arte Muy Fragile: Sobre la Retorica de Aristoteles, trans. Rogenio Gonzalez (Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Metales Pesados, 2010); The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature’s Self-Formation (Fordham University Press, 2011); Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology (Stanford University Press, 2012); Geophilosophy: On Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s “What Is Philosophy?” (Northwestern University Press, 2014); Deconstruction, Its Force Its Violence (SUNY Press, 2016); Persuasion, Reflection, Judgment: Ancillae Vitae (Indiana University Press, 2017); Storytelling: The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust (SUNY Press, 2018); De l’Éclat du Monde: La “valeur” chez Marx et Nancy (Editions Hermann, 2019); Locating Europe: A Figure, A Concept, An Idea? (Indiana University Press, 2020). His latest book-length study, Plato’s Stranger, will be forthcoming from SUNY Press in 2022.
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