Europe after Derrida: Crisis and Potentiality
Agnes Czajka and Bora Isyar
Abstract
Is Europe’s crisis merely 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, and the possibility of Europe’s dissolution emerges on the horizon, the authors of this volume argue that the contemporary crisis points to a much older, more fundamental and yet not unrelated crisis: the crisis of European identity. 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. Tackling issues rangi ... More
Is Europe’s crisis merely 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, and the possibility of Europe’s dissolution emerges on the horizon, the authors of this volume argue that the contemporary crisis points to a much older, more fundamental and yet not unrelated crisis: the crisis of European identity. 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. Tackling issues ranging from Europe’s legal, institutional and cultural identity to its border, citizenship and integration policies, and its legacy for the future the book interrogates the various dimensions and contours of Europe’s contemporary crisis. By revisiting Derrida’s diagnosis of the crisis of European identity, it simultaneously proposes a new direction for Europe, and an alternative response to today’s crisis.
Keywords:
Derrida,
Europe,
European Crisis,
European Identity,
European Politics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780748683369 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2014 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748683369.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Agnes Czajka, editor
The Open University, Milton Keynes
Bora Isyar, editor
The National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
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