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Europe Beyond Universalism and Particularism

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Editors:
  1. Susanna Lindberg

    1. School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland

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  2. Mika Ojakangas

    1. Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

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  3. Sergei Prozorov

    1. Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Transcending Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Transcending Europe

      • Susanna Lindberg, Mika Ojakangas, Sergei Prozorov
      Pages 1-9

  3. The Idea of Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. European Political Universalism: A Very Short History

      • Mika Ojakangas
      Pages 13-32

    3. Is ‘Europe’ an Idea in the Kantian Sense?

      • Rodolphe Gasché
      Pages 33-65

    4. The Particular Universal: Europe in Modern Philosophies of History

      • Timo Miettinen
      Pages 66-83

    5. Different Ways to Europe: Habermas and Derrida

      • Matthias Flatscher
      Pages 84-99

  4. Beyond European Identity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Unhomely Europe

      • Susanna Lindberg
      Pages 103-119

    3. Christian Europe: Borders and Boundaries of a Mythological Conception

      • Jayne Svenungsson
      Pages 120-134

    4. What Is the Other of Europe?

      • Sergei Prozorov
      Pages 135-161

    5. Imagining Europe as Open Spaces

      • Ari Hirvonen
      Pages 162-178

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 179-194
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Resulting from an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy, political science and International Relations about Europe as a political community this volume rethinks the European political project beyond the rigid opposition between universalism and particularism approaching Europe as a space of the exposure of differences to each other.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland

    Susanna Lindberg

  • Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

    Mika Ojakangas

  • Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

    Sergei Prozorov

About the editors

Matthias Flatscher, University of Vienna, Austria Rodolphe Gasché, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Ari Hirvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Timo Miettinen, University of Helsinki, Finland Jayne Svenungsson, Uppsala University, Sweden

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