Re: surely some kind of world-view

I'm pretty sure "Europe" means just that -- Europe as opposed to the United States. I don't think a "constructed European identity" necessarily has to flow from one specific "world-view" -- it could be a conglomeration of value judgments supported by a number of competing world views. This does reinforce my earlier statements that the
political activism, in the mind of the author, presupposed a specific philosophy that the author believed to be in contradiction to Derrida's own philosophy.

So I think Robbie misunderstands me if he thinks this paragraph:

> but that something was interesting or suspicious in a particular
> and specific political statement that he took to contradict particularly and
> specifically whatever he knew or thought he knew about philosophy Derrida
> has written.
>

is something that I'd disagree with. It's what I've been saying (or at least trying to) all along. The illustration was of political activism requiring a specific and single philosophical stance, that's all. I'm saying that's not necessarily the case, at least this time.

Jim

jlsmith3@earthlink.net wrote:

> From the article:
> "On the other hand, they are explicitly working toward a new, constructed European identity, which must surely be some kind of world-view. They are offering Europe as a preliminary sketch for a future world government, as does the draft European constitution advanced by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the former President of France."
>
> These might be questions that only John is well-versed enough to answer, but does "Eurocentrism" necessarily mean Europe, or might it connote something more general like values and beliefs traditionally called Western?
>
> Is an alliance between Habermas and Derrida possibly suggestive of a subjective shift in which societies are deemeed more normatively tasteful (to deconstructionists), not because of fundamental philosophy but because of their political positions? The U.S. and Britain will be left to apologize alone for Eurocentrism? Ironic, dontcha think?
>
> luke

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