116 Pages
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Routledge
116 Pages
by
Routledge
116 Pages
by
Routledge
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The meaning of Europe exceeds its territorial limits, and is not fully ascribable either to the events that characterized its history or to the institutions that regulated the lives of its inhabitants. Europe is all this, and yet it represents much more: a political concept and project, a cultural enterprise, and a system of power whose legitimacy is currently challenged by a series of internal... Read more
Introduction: Phenomenology and the idea of Europe 1. Europe: a postulate of phenomenological reason 2. European institutions? 3. The brave struggle: Jan Patočka on Europe’s past and future 4. Levinas, Europe and others: the postcolonial challenge to alterity 5. Nietzsche’s Europe: an experimental anticipation of the future 6. Europe and the Stranger
Biography
Francesco Tava is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England, UK. He is the author of The Risk of Freedom: Ethics, Phenomenology, and Politics in Jan Patočka (2015) and the co-editor of Thinking After Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics (2016).
