Reimagining Europe

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 Uljée 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.

• Introduction: Imaginaries of a Perpetual Crisis and the Future of Europe: On the Project of Reimagining EuropeGeorgios Tsagdis, Rozemund Uljée, and Bart ZantvoortPart I: Idea, Memory, Method 1. The Divided Origin: Re-membering Plato's EuropeGeorgios Tsagdis2. Entwurf of the Method and Ethics of Its Discourse: Notes on Cartesian Rationalism ReconsideredVera Bühlmann3. Europe as the Crisis of PlayFrank Chouraqui4. Of Ships and Palaces: Inverted Images of Europe in CrisisRiccardo M. VillaPart II: Europe's Other(s) 5. Europe and Its Phantoms: Walter Mignolo's Decolonial Critique of Jacques Derrida's DeconstructionThomas Clément Mercier6. Europe without Eurocentrism? An Essay in Critical-Colonial StudiesChiara Bottici and Benoît Challand7. Reimagining Europe as a Europe of RefugeesAgnes CzajkaPart III: After the End 8. The End of Europe: Herder and Hegel on Progress and DeclineBart Zantvoort9. The Ends of Europe: On Patočka's Concept of Post-EuropeOvidiu Stanciu10. Patočka, the Second World War, and the European ProjectLorenzo Girardi11. Solidarity as Freedom: Jürgen Habermas, Jean-Luc Nancy, and the Future(s) of the European ProjectThomas Telios12. The Promise of EuropeRozemund UljéeList of ContributorsIndex

"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 Patočka, 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 University