Sites of Indeterminacy and the Spectres of Eurocentrism

Author: Richter G.

Source: Culture, Theory and Critique, Volume 43, Number 1, 1 May 2002 , pp. 51-65(15)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

The concepts of Europe and Eurocentrism, along with the political, cultural, and philosophical issues that are inseparable from them, touch upon many of today's most pressing concerns. This essay examines the ways in which problems of the aporia and of undecidability may shed light on the possibility of a new Europe to come. Through a comparative reading of Slavoj Zcaron

ek's pleas for a leftist Eurocentrism, Walter Benjamin's historical unweaving of Europe and Jacques Derrida's engagements with Europe as perpetually nonself-identical, Europe becomes visible as one of the names for the faint promise lodged in what will not simply remain transparent and itself.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2002-05-01

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