Europe and Its Boundaries

Andrew Davison and Himadeep Muppidi have been in conversation since their graduate school days at the University of Minnesota and are colleagues in the department of political science at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Professor Davison's works include The Philosophic Roots of Modern Ideology: Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, and Islamism, and Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration. Professor Muppidi's works include The Politics of the Global.

Pursuing Dipesh Chakrabarty's argument in Provincializing Europe, this volume explores the intrinsic ambivalence of Europe: its 'indispensable' status as a source of universal horizons and its simultaneous 'inadequacy' due to its hegemonic policies and agendas. Probing the continent's intimate connection with colonialism, anti-colonialism, post-colonialism, and cosmopolitanism, the authors show that Europe can only find itself by losing itself in robust dialogue with other cultures and traditions. An important contribution to cross-cultural and post-colonial studies.

• Chapter 1 OpeningsPart 2 Part One. Philosophical (Re)ConsiderationsChapter 3 Chapter One. Teaching Continually: Beginning with LévinasChapter 4 Chapter Two. Hegel as a Colonial, Anti-Colonial, and Post-Colonial ThinkerChapter 5 Chapter Three. Jacques Derrida, The Last EuropeanChapter 6 Chapter Four. Europe and Its Boundaries: Toward a Global Hermeneutic Political TheoryPart 7 Part Two. Other Words and WorldsChapter 8 Chapter Five. Interpreting Europe through the Parthenon MarblesChapter 9 Chapter Six. The Mapping of Empire: Evolving Notions of Christendom and Europe in the Poetry of Fernando de Herrera Commemorating the Battle of LepantoChapter 10 Chapter Seven. Valley of the Fallen: Tales from the CryptChapter 11 Chapter Eight. Orhan Pamuk'sSnow: Re-imagining the Boundaries between East and West, Art and PoliticsChapter 12 Chapter Nine. Zoological RelationsChapter 13 Chapter Ten. Borders, Power, and Resistance: Bounding and Challenging EuropeChapter 14 Chapter Eleven. Securing the Absent Nation: Colonial Governance in the New World Order