Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Idea of Europe: A Collaborative Pedagogical Project
Part I: What Is Europe?
Chapter 2: A Story of Europe
Chapter 3: The Idea of Europe, Levinas, and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
Part II: Where Is Europe?
Chapter 4: Relocating Europe
Chapter 5: Idea of Rome, Idea of Europe
Chapter 6: Provincia Gallia Narbonensis
Part III: Testimony and Witness
Chapter 7: Listening and the Art of Survival
Chapter 8: Primo Levi's Testimony, or Philosophy between Poetry and Science
Chapter 9: Europe in the Wake of the Shoah
Part IV: Disciplines, Borders, Crossings
Chapter 10: Autonomy and the Mistress Discipline in European Thought
Chapter 11: Does Baudelaire Read Adam Smith?
Chapter 12: On Charting Europeanness
Further Reading: A Bibliographical Essay

About the Author

Evlyn Gould is professor of Romance languages at the University of Oregon. George J. Sheridan Jr. is associate professor of history at the University of Oregon.

Reviews

Taking a welcome interdisciplinary approach, this brief yet insightful book succeeds in its stated ambition of making readers contemplate 'rethinking a changing continent.' Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*

This is a delightful volume. Fascinating, illuminating, always intelligent, it collects together a variety of thoughtful reflections that probe the 'Europe' of our history, science, imagination, hopes, fears, dreams, values, and, above all, of our minds. If it is true that one cannot go home again, apparently one can still return for the first time.
*Richard A. Cohen, author of Out of Control: Confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas*

This lively, wide-ranging, splendid assortment of essays highlights Europe's grand intellectual traditions, its tragic passions and moral dramas. It casts European history and its future as both a deeply familiar and a de-familiarized, largely uncharted terrain—a space of the mind and a riddle to try to solve.
*Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University*

An interesting, novel, and stimulating scholarly contribution to our way of conceptualizing the European experience.
*Ulf Hedetoft, Aalborg University, Denmark*