1st Edition
What is European? On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought
By Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Copyright 2025
128 Pages
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Amsterdam University Press
It is common to define Europe by its democratic, scientific, religious, and cultural traditions. But in What is European? , Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues that the search for Europe's essence has taken a troubling turn. He shows that many traditional ideas about Europe are culturally one-sided and historically and geographically distorted, and calls for a decolonisation and deromanticisation of the... Read more
Introduction, 1 Decolonisation 2 Deromanticisation 3 What is typically European? 4 Multi-ethnic cities: the Europe of the future, Notes, Acknowledgements, About the Author
Biography
Dag Nikolaus Hasse is professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Würzburg. Among his numerous publications, two monographs stand out: Avicenna's De Anima in the Latin West (2000), and Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance (2016). In 2016, Hasse was awarded the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the highest disctinction for a scientist in Germany.
