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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Cacciari, Massimo. Europe and empire. New York : Fordham University Press, 2016 (DLC) 2015017375 (OCoLC)909326347 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Massimo Cacciari; Alessandro Carrera; Massimo Verdicchio |
ISBN: | 9780823267200 0823267202 9780823267194 0823267199 |
OCLC Number: | 941700235 |
Language Note: | Collection of essays in Italian published individually by the author over several decades, edited and published together in an English translation. |
Description: | 1 online resource (214 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction : Massimo Cacciari's genealogy of Europe / Alessandro Carrera -- PART I. THINKING EUROPE -- Thinking Europe -- Europeanism -- Two German speeches : the "second thought", the language of Europe -- Europe or philosophy -- Europe or Christianity -- PART II. THE IDEA OF EMPIRE -- What is empire? -- The myth of the growing city -- Digressions on empire and the three Romes -- More on the idea of empire -- Empire and Katechon : a question of political theology (from Paul, 2 Thessalonians 2) -- ADDENDA. The Europe of María Zambrano -- We cannot call ourselves only Judeo-Christians : a conversation with Jacques Le Goff. |
Series Title: | Commonalities. |
Responsibility: | Massimo Cacciari ; edited by Alessandro Carrera ; translated by Massimo Verdicchio. |
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Europe and Empire is both timely and insightful. Politician, activist, philosopher and teacher, Massimo Cacciari explores both the hopes and possibilities of a nascent European Union as well as its current demise as a serious world power. What do the idea and reality of Europe hold for philosophy, politics and globalization? This is the central question of the essays of this volume. With great erudition, rich political insight and sharp critical analysis, Cacciari leads readers to a deeper understanding of the aspirations and failures of Europe, all from a deeply philosophical perspective: Europe in its "evening light" must learn to see itself through the "insufficiency" of its own self-definitions, a project similar to the negative theology of thinkers like Nicholas of Cusa. Cacciari calls us to think Europe as an unpolitical community.----Antonio Calcagno, King's University College, London, Canada Read more...


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