Europe after Derrida : crisis and potentiality / edited by Agnes Czajka and Bora Isyar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Czajka, Agnes, editor.

Isyar, Bora, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Politics and government--1945-.

Europe.

Politics and government.

Nationalism--Europe.

Nationalism.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Derrida, Jacques.

Physical Description:

xi, 170 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Is Europe's crisis merely a financial one? By revisiting Derrida's diagnosis of the crisis of European identity, they simultaneously propose a new direction for Europe, and an alternative response to today's crisis.

Contents:

Introduction: What will become of Europe? / Agnes Czajka and Bora Isyar

Mind the 'cap' / Samuel Weber

Derrida's Europe : 'Greek, Christian and beyond' / Simon Glendinning

A Roman Europe of hope : reading Derrida with Brague / Bora Isyar

Other shores : insularity, materiality and the making (and unmaking) of 'Europe' / Stuart McLean

Europe's Constitution for the unborn / Matthias Fritsch

The borders of contemporary Europe : territory, justice and rights / Tracey Skillington

We, the non-Europeans : Derrida with Said / Engin F. Isin

Of Europe : Zionism and the Jewish other / Sherene Seikaly and Max Ajl

The European ideal in the Face of the Muslim other / Zeynep Direk

Christianity, Secularism and the crisis of Europe / Ian Anthony Morrison

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748683369

0748683364

OCLC:

872670366