{"product_id":"europe-a-philosophical-history-part-3","title":"Europe: A Philosophical History, Part 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eEurope is inseparable from its history. That history has been extensively studied in terms of its political history, its economic history, its religious history, its literary and cultural history, and so on. Could there be a distinctively philosophical history of Europe? Not a history of philosophy in Europe, but a history of Europe that focuses on what, in its history and identity, ties it to philosophy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the two volumes of\u003ci\u003e Europe: A Philosophical History\u003c\/i\u003e – \u003ci\u003eThe Promise of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeyond Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e – Simon Glendinning takes up this question, telling the story of Europe’s history as a philosophical history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of two world wars of European origin, Europe’s modern promise of universal peace, freedom and well-being for all humanity lay in ruins. In Part 2, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, Glendinning picks up the story of this promise after the Second World War. Taking in Isaiah Berlin’s defence of a pluralist ideal, Francis Fukuyama’s vision of a new ‘end of history’ in liberal democracy, and Jacques Derrida’s critique of the very idea of an end of history, Glendinning invites us to affirm a new philosophical-historical self-understanding: not the history of the rational animal on the way to its final end, with Europe at the head, but a history of the unpredictably self-transforming animal without a final end. In this context, Glendinning argues, Europe remains promising, its cosmopolitan heritage opening a future beyond its exhausted modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePart 1: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Promise of Modernity \u003c\/em\u003eis available now from Routledge. ISBN 9781032015804\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54237477077336,"sku":"9781138580350","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138580350_b13e4a60-4173-443f-bb03-11d111be12dd.jpg?v=1779172264","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/europe-a-philosophical-history-part-3","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}