Reimagining Europe
Thinking in Crisis
Published on 2. July 2025
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326 pages
978-1-4384-9980-2 (ISBN)
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Essays addressing, from various angles, the relationship between Europe and philosophy in today's crisis-ridden contexts such as xenophobia and migration.
Reimagining Europe comprises a series of contributions which address, in various ways, the relationship between Europe and continental philosophy/phenomenology. Europe is in crisis: a crisis that no longer designates a moment of decision, a critical point between a before and an after, but a state, a permanent mode of being, a constant emergency. At this juncture of Europe, the aporia of language confronts the aporia of history. We cannot speak, we must speak, we shall speak. As such, the contributions all engage with the idea that the question "what is Europe?" must measure up a series of questions, namely: what was it to be? What does it mean to initiate and sustain a project, such as Europe, if only at times, after the fact? The questions of internal and external borders, of homogeneity and coherence, identity and equality, legitimacy and rights, democracy and representation can only be raised insofar as the question of Europe, its destiny, and destination, is raised as a whole.
Reimagining Europe comprises a series of contributions which address, in various ways, the relationship between Europe and continental philosophy/phenomenology. Europe is in crisis: a crisis that no longer designates a moment of decision, a critical point between a before and an after, but a state, a permanent mode of being, a constant emergency. At this juncture of Europe, the aporia of language confronts the aporia of history. We cannot speak, we must speak, we shall speak. As such, the contributions all engage with the idea that the question "what is Europe?" must measure up a series of questions, namely: what was it to be? What does it mean to initiate and sustain a project, such as Europe, if only at times, after the fact? The questions of internal and external borders, of homogeneity and coherence, identity and equality, legitimacy and rights, democracy and representation can only be raised insofar as the question of Europe, its destiny, and destination, is raised as a whole.
Reviews / Votes
"This deeply thought-provoking collection asks if Europe can reimagine itself, beyond essentialism, in the wake of immigrant waves that reveal foreclosed political imaginaries that challenge and confront Europe's own image and self-understanding. By concentrating results and ideas of philosophers, political scientists, and interdisciplinary scholars, it offers new ways of contesting Europe from within. It offers sophisticated, bold chapters engaging Plato, Descartes, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and post-war philosophers such as Patocka, Derrida, Agamben and Esposito. Overall, the collection reimagines Europe beyond closure, by thinking about it from a perspective of limits, thresholds, and margins. This volume is an excellent resource in contemporary continental political philosophy, indispensable for opening new horizons in today's geo-political thought." - Emilia Angelova, Concordia UniversityMore details
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English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
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534 gr
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978-1-4384-9980-2 (9781438499802)
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Persons
Georgios Tsagdis is Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy of Technology at Wageningen University and Research (WUR) and Lecturer in Philosophy at Leiden University. He has coedited Derrida's Politics of Friendship and Bernard Stiegler. Rozemund Uljee is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy, Leiden University. She is the author of Thinking Difference with Heidegger and Levinas, also published by SUNY Press. Bart Zantvoort is Lecturer in Philosophy at Leiden University. He is the coeditor of Hegel and Resistance.
Content
Introduction: Imaginaries of a Perpetual Crisis and the Future of Europe: On the Project of Reimagining Europe
Georgios Tsagdis, Rozemund Uljee, and Bart Zantvoort
Part I: Idea, Memory, Method
1. The Divided Origin: Re-membering Plato's Europe
Georgios Tsagdis
2. Entwurf of the Method and Ethics of Its Discourse: Notes on Cartesian Rationalism Reconsidered
Vera Buehlmann
3. Europe as the Crisis of Play
Frank Chouraqui
4. Of Ships and Palaces: Inverted Images of Europe in Crisis
Riccardo M. Villa
Part II: Europe's Other(s)
5. Europe and Its Phantoms: Walter Mignolo's Decolonial Critique of Jacques Derrida's Deconstruction
Thomas Clement Mercier
6. Europe without Eurocentrism? An Essay in Critical-Colonial Studies
Chiara Bottici and Benoit Challand
7. Reimagining Europe as a Europe of Refugees
Agnes Czajka
Part III: After the End
8. The End of Europe: Herder and Hegel on Progress and Decline
Bart Zantvoort
9. The Ends of Europe: On Patocka's Concept of Post-Europe
Ovidiu Stanciu
10. Patocka, the Second World War, and the European Project
Lorenzo Girardi
11. Solidarity as Freedom: Juergen Habermas, Jean-Luc Nancy, and the Future(s) of the European Project
Thomas Telios
12. The Promise of Europe
Rozemund Uljee
List of Contributors
Index
Georgios Tsagdis, Rozemund Uljee, and Bart Zantvoort
Part I: Idea, Memory, Method
1. The Divided Origin: Re-membering Plato's Europe
Georgios Tsagdis
2. Entwurf of the Method and Ethics of Its Discourse: Notes on Cartesian Rationalism Reconsidered
Vera Buehlmann
3. Europe as the Crisis of Play
Frank Chouraqui
4. Of Ships and Palaces: Inverted Images of Europe in Crisis
Riccardo M. Villa
Part II: Europe's Other(s)
5. Europe and Its Phantoms: Walter Mignolo's Decolonial Critique of Jacques Derrida's Deconstruction
Thomas Clement Mercier
6. Europe without Eurocentrism? An Essay in Critical-Colonial Studies
Chiara Bottici and Benoit Challand
7. Reimagining Europe as a Europe of Refugees
Agnes Czajka
Part III: After the End
8. The End of Europe: Herder and Hegel on Progress and Decline
Bart Zantvoort
9. The Ends of Europe: On Patocka's Concept of Post-Europe
Ovidiu Stanciu
10. Patocka, the Second World War, and the European Project
Lorenzo Girardi
11. Solidarity as Freedom: Juergen Habermas, Jean-Luc Nancy, and the Future(s) of the European Project
Thomas Telios
12. The Promise of Europe
Rozemund Uljee
List of Contributors
Index