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Reason, Crisis, and Europe

Conceptual and Historical Perspectives

Av Marco Piasentier, Panu-Matti Pöykkö

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This volume examines the intertwined meanings of reason, crisis, and Europe against the backdrop of acute political, ethical, and geopolitical instability. Eschewing any singular diagnosis or overarching interpretive frame, it assembles a range of disciplinary, methodological, and normative approaches in productive tension. Through analyses of war and unrest, democratic backsliding, persistent colonial legacies, neoliberal forms of governance, and divergent philosophical lineages, the volume invites readers to reassess the foundations, limits, and possible futures of European thought and institutional life.Organized into four parts, the volume opens by tracing key moments in the philosophical history of reason and its recurrent crises within modern European intellectual traditions. Parts II and III extend this framing by introducing new theoretical perspectives and intellectual histories. Part II highlights the contradictions, contestations, and negotiations that have shaped the evolution of European philosophy. Part III offers a critical examination of political and legal discourses forged in response to the crises of the twentieth century, interrogating how these normative projects have influenced the trajectory of late modern Europe. Part IV concludes the volume with contemporary theoretical and political reflections on Europe’s present and its possible reconfigurations.Reason, Crisis, and Europe will appeal to scholars and advanced students in European philosophy, European studies, political theory, and the history of legal and political thought, as well as readers seeking a rigorous, interdisciplinary account of European modernity and its enduring crises.
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Marco Piasentier is an assistant professor in political philosophy at the University of Salerno and a research affiliate at the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and European Narratives, University of Helsinki.Panu‑Matti Pöykkö is a grant‑funded researcher focusing on the philosophy of religion and contemporary European and American philosophy at the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, and a visiting scholar at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

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Today, Europe finds itself under strong external pressure and traversed by painful internal divisions, the former of course stirring the latter. The contemporary crises are so unreasonable that what seems to be in crisis is literally reason. But although present-day political crises strike us as unexpected, fundamentally the crisis of reason is nothing new in Europe, on the contrary, in many ways, it is the very definition of Europe. Since the beginning, Europe is also a philosophical idea, moreover, a very particular idea, in that Europe has at the same time identified itself with an ideal of reason, and thought itself in terms of the crisis and failure of this ideal. This timely book explores Europe as a philosophical question, with which both reason and its crisis are not only at stake, but at test. Its chapters draw a rich and stimulating map of different aspects of the crisis of reason tested against historical reality. It is recommended reading for anyone desiring to traverse our time by means of thinking.Susanna Lindberg, Professor of Continental Philosophy, Leiden UniversityIn this collection, the editors take seriously the current crises of European modernity and of its normative categories of reason and progress as culminated in the many tragic events of the past century. With a rich multidisciplinary approach, the contributions to the volume question the very idea that the European project could even be seen as coherent and unitary attempt, and demonstrates how its genesis and trajectories of development have always been more contested, liminal, and uncertain. The book unveils alternative voices and concepts though which hegemonic rationalities can be problematised, and takes this plurality as the starting point for imaginatively think new paths of thinking for the future.Sara Raimondi, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Northeastern LondonThe contributions in this volume add up to a renewed vision of Europe in the world. If you care about the project of modernity then this is a must read text.Dr. Iain MacKenzie, Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent

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