Europe Beyond Universalism and Particularism

ISBN-13: 9781349472420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 194 str.

S. Lindberg;S. Prozorov;M. Ojakangas

Opis

Resulting from an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy, political science and International Relations about Europe as a political community this volume rethinks the European political project beyond the rigid opposition between universalism and particularism approaching Europe as a space of the exposure of differences to each other.

Spis treści

Introduction: Transcending Europe; Susanna Lindberg, Sergei Prozorov, Mika Ojakangas PART I: THE IDEA OF EUROPE 1. European Political Universalism: A Very Short History; Mika Ojakangas 2. Is 'Europe' an Idea in the Kantian Sense?; Rodolphe Gasché 3. The Particular Universal: Europe in Modern Philosophies of History; Timo Miettinen 4. Different Ways to Europe: Habermas and Derrida; Matthias Flatscher PART II: BEYOND EUROPEAN IDENTITY 5. Unhomely Europe; Susanna Lindberg 6. Christian Europe: Borders and Boundaries of a Mythological Conception; Jayne Svenungsson 7. What is the Other of Europe?; Sergei Prozorov 8. Imagining Europe as Open Spaces; Ari Hirvonen

O autorze

Matthias Flatscher, University of Vienna, Austria Rodolphe Gasché, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Ari Hirvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Timo Miettinen, University of Helsinki, Finland Jayne Svenungsson, Uppsala University, Sweden