Europe Beyond Universalism and Particularism

Bringing together an international group of philosophers as well as political and IR international relations theorists, this collection mobilizes the insights of modern philosophy and the lessons of contemporary politics to develop a concept of universalism that would be adequate to European politics in the context of globalization and multiculturalism. Europe is reinterpreted as a 'singular universal',– not a model that could be a source of identification, but rather a hypothetical, regulative, or virtual principle that consists in perpetual self-transgression and openness towards the other.

Contents:

++ Introduction: Transcending Europe

+ PART I: THE IDEA OF EUROPE
++ 1. European Political Universalism: A Very Short History
++ 2. Is 'Europe' an Idea in the Kantian Sense?
++ 3. The Particular Universal: Europe in Modern Philosophies of History
++ 4. Different Ways to Europe: Habermas and Derrida

+ PART II: BEYOND EUROPEAN IDENTITY
++ 5. Unhomely Europe
++ 6. Christian Europe: Borders and Boundaries of a Mythological Conception
++ 7. What is the Other of Europe?
++ 8. Imagining Europe as Open Spaces

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