TY - GEN AU - Gasche, Rodolphe TI - Europe, or the infinite task : a study of a philosophical concept T2 - Meridian, crossing aesthetics SN - 9780804760614 U1 - 190 PY - 2008/// CY - Stanford PB - Stanford University Press KW - Europe KW - Phenomenology KW - Antigona KW - Creon KW - Derrida, Jacques KW - Enkidu KW - Galileo Galilei KW - Husserl,Edmund KW - Heidegger,Martin KW - Jan Patocka KW - Objective sciences KW - Plato KW - Ricoeur,Paul KW - Sophocles KW - Thales N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 ER -