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082			_a190 _bGAS
100			_aGasche, Rodolphe
245			_aEurope, or the infinite task : a study of a philosophical concept
260			_bStanford University Press, _c2008 _aStanford :
300			_axii, 412 p.; _c23 cm
365			_b23.99 _cGBP _d104.20
490			_aMeridian, crossing aesthetics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aWhat 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.
650			_aEurope
650			_aPhenomenology
650			_aAntigona
650			_a Creon
650			_aDerrida, Jacques
650			_aEnkidu
650			_a Galileo Galilei
650			_a Husserl,Edmund
650			_aHeidegger,Martin
650			_aJan Patocka
650			_a Objective sciences
650			_aPlato
650			_aRicoeur,Paul
650			_aSophocles
650			_aThales
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