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(2014) Europe beyond universalism and particularism, Dordrecht, Springer.

Unhomely Europe

Susanna Lindberg

pp. 103-119

My hypothesis is the following: If there is such a thing as "Europe' (as our political institutions suppose) and, moreover, if it has a common horizon of sense (although the institutions do not really need it), then the unitary horizon of sense of today's Europe could be articulated through one of Martin Heidegger's "thinking words,' Heimatlosigkeit, which can be translated as unhomeliness, homelessness or uprootedness. This makes sense immediately, for instance, in the general feeling that Europe is nobody's "homeland,' a feeling that weighs heavily upon most elections in Europe today.

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137361820_6

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Lindberg, S. (2014)., Unhomely Europe, in S. Lindberg, M. Ojakangas & S. Prozorov (eds.), Europe beyond universalism and particularism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 103-119.

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