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Having anticipated a crisis-to-come, what can Derrida offer Europe now that the crisis has come?
Is Europe’s crisis just a financial one? It has been widely understood as such, yet its scope and implications far exceed Europe’s financial markets. As the crisis deepens, the previously unspeakable – the dissolution of Europe – begins to be whispered.
Now, the contributors to this volume suggest that the contemporary crisis is a manifestation of an older and more fundamental crisis: the crisis of European identity. Centred on the questions of ‘What is called Europe?’ and ‘How should Europe be?’, it was diagnosed two decades ago by Jacques Derrida. It is a crisis to which Europe has thus far been unable to respond, yet one to which it must respond if it is to survive.
By revisiting Derrida’s diagnosis of the crisis of European identity, the book offers an alternative response to today’s crisis. The obstinacy of the crisis demands this reengagement with Derrida’s thought on Europe, and with Europe after Derrida.
Key Features:
. Interrogates the multiple dimensions of Europe’s identity crisis
. Tackles issues ranging from Europe’s legal, institutional and cultural identity to its citizenship and integration policies, and from its border to what its legacy will be
. Looks at the importance of Derrida’s thought on hospitality, debt, cosmopolitanism, autoimmunity and more
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: What will Become of Europe?, Agnes Czajka and Bora Isyar
1. Mind the 'Cap', Samuel Weber
2. Derrida's Europe: 'Greek, Christian and Beyond', Simon Glendinning
3. A Roman Europe of Hope: Reading Derrida with Brague, Bora Isyar
4. Other Shores: Insularity, Materiality and the Making (and Unmaking) of 'Europe', Stuart McLean
5. Europe's Constitution for the Unborn, Matthias Fritsch
6. The Borders of Contemporary Europe: Territory, Justice and Rights, Tracey Skillington
7. We, the Non-Europeans: Derrida with Said, Engin F. Isin
8. Of Europe: Zionism and the Jewish Other, Sherene Seikaly and Max Ajl
9. The European Ideal in the Face of the Muslim Other, Zeynep Direk
10. Christianity, Secularism and the Crisis of Europe, Ian Anthony Morrison
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Περιγραφή
Having anticipated a crisis-to-come, what can Derrida offer Europe now that the crisis has come?
Is Europe’s crisis just a financial one? It has been widely understood as such, yet its scope and implications far exceed Europe’s financial markets. As the crisis deepens, the previously unspeakable – the dissolution of Europe – begins to be whispered.
Now, the contributors to this volume suggest that the contemporary crisis is a manifestation of an older and more fundamental crisis: the crisis of European identity. Centred on the questions of ‘What is called Europe?’ and ‘How should Europe be?’, it was diagnosed two decades ago by Jacques Derrida. It is a crisis to which Europe has thus far been unable to respond, yet one to which it must respond if it is to survive.
By revisiting Derrida’s diagnosis of the crisis of European identity, the book offers an alternative response to today’s crisis. The obstinacy of the crisis demands this reengagement with Derrida’s thought on Europe, and with Europe after Derrida.
Key Features:
. Interrogates the multiple dimensions of Europe’s identity crisis
. Tackles issues ranging from Europe’s legal, institutional and cultural identity to its citizenship and integration policies, and from its border to what its legacy will be
. Looks at the importance of Derrida’s thought on hospitality, debt, cosmopolitanism, autoimmunity and more
