The Idea of Europe : The Clash of Projections.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Rethinking the Idea of Europe -- 2 Crisscrossing Projections -- 3 The Heterotopias of Europe -- Works Cited -- 1. Jan Patočka on Europe in the Aftermath of Europe -- Works Cited -- 2. Post-imperial Europe: The Return of the Indistinct -- 1 Post-Versailles Europe: The Compensatory Indistinct of Subalterns -- 2 Postcolonial Europe: The Repenting Indistinct of Superiors -- 3 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 3. Can the European Heritage Be Redeemed? Confessions of an Europeanist -- Works Cited -- 4. Europe and a Geopolitics of Hope -- 1 Hoping for Europe -- 2 Practiced 'Europeanism' -- 3 A Doubting Actor? -- 3 Europe's Future Promise -- Works Cited -- 5. Eurotypes after Eurocentrism: Mixed Feelings in an Uncomfortable World -- 1 Eurotypes in Cultural Awareness and Archival Memory -- 2 Selves and Others, Auto- and Hetero-images, as a Diachronic Accumulation -- 3 A Succession of Eurotypes: Dialectics, Valorization and Accumulation -- 4 The Present European Crisis and Beyond: An Emergent Eurotype? -- Works Cited -- 6. Rock, Mirror, Mirage: Europe, Elsewhere -- ZERO - [Untitled, for lack of words] -- ONE - Utopia, Lollipop, Alibi -- TWO - Leaving: Rock, Mirage -- THREE - Otherwhere -- FOUR - Who Are You? -- FIVE - Walking into the Frame -- SIX - Bitter Sugar -- SEVEN - Elsewhere -- EIGHT - Immaculate Conception -- NINE - Not Yet -- TEN - Who Is the Real European? -- ELEVEN - Europe Doesn't Exist: We Know Because We Live There -- Works Cited -- 7. You Say Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité? Japanese Critical Perceptions of the Idea of Europe -- 1 Preliminary Observations -- 1.1 From Conceptual Impasse to Mutual Dialogue -- 1.2 Crisis of the European Model -- 1.3 Toward a Methodological 'Clash of Projections' -- 2 Three Cases in Question.

2.1 First Case Study: Mori Ōgai and Questioning the Idea of Fraternité -- 2.2 Second Case Study: Takeyama Michio, and Questioning the Idea of Égalité -- 2.3 Third Case Study: Kudō Tetsumi and the Idea of Liberté -- 3 Humanism in Question -- 3.1 Decomposed Humanism -- 3.2 Toward a Philosophy of Impotence -- 4 In the Guise of a Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 8. East Looks West and West Looks East: Images of Russia -- 1 Presuppositions and Preconceived Opinions -- 2 What Makes Russia Special... -- 3 Russia as Tabula Rasa without History and Without a Face: The Leibniz Project -- 4 The Chaadaev Complex: A Complaint List -- 5 The Culture of Misunderstanding as a Pingpong Policy -- 6 Paradoxes of Russian Self-Interpretations -- 6.1 The Self-Orientalization of Russia, or 'We Are Exotic' -- 6.2 Russian Apocalypse Now and Forever -- 6.3 The Russian Idea - A Salvation for All -- 7 Russia as a Phantasm of the West after 1900 -- 7.1 Entirely Alien -- 7.2 Even so, Salvation through Russianness -- 8 Russia Is Its Own Psychopathology -- 9 Russia is Literature: Russia is Dostoevsky and Vice Versa -- 10 Concepts of Russian in Post-Soviet Conceptualism -- Works Cited -- 9. On the Margins of (the Idea of) Europe: A Tale of Two Galicias as Constructive Comparativism -- 1 En salvaxe compaña: A Tale of Western European Galicia -- 2 Opowieści galicyiskie: A Tale of Eastern European Galicia -- 3 The Clash of Galician/European Projections -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- Works Cited -- 10. United Europe and Disunited Yugoslavia -- 1 Let Me Tell You a Joke… -- 2 'They Migrate, We Flee to Seek Refuge': Governance through Insecurity -- 3 The Remains of a Yugoslav Muslim - Governance through Trauma -- 4 The Proletarian Lung: Governance through Poverty -- 5 Conclusion: Protesting to Maintain Production -- Works Cited -- 11. 'A Marvellous Leeway': Walter Benjamin's Idea of Europe.

1 Necessity and Act of Violence -- 2 Deferral and Aporia -- 3 Europe as Leeway -- Works Cited -- Index.

What is the contemporary status of a perceived "European" identity? This book addresses the complex negotiations around the lingering shadow of Eurocentrism, now increasingly challenged by intra-European crises and by the emergence of autonomously non-European perceptions of Europe.

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