Post-Europe is co-published by Sequence Press (New York) and Urbanomic (Falmouth) and distributed by the MIT Press. The book is available in September 2024. Readers could order the book from both publishers and online bookstores.
Description
With the unstoppable advance of global capitalism, the Heimatlosigkeit (homelessness) which twentieth-century European philosophy spoke of—and which Heidegger declared had become the ‘destiny of the world’—is set to become ever more pathological in its consequences. But rather than dreaming of an impossible return to Heimat, Yuk Hui argues that today thinking must start out from the standpoint of becoming-homeless.
Drawing on the philosophies of Gilbert Simondon, Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler, and Jan Patočka alongside the thought of Kitaro Nishida, Keiki Nishitani, and Mou Zongsan among others, Yuk Hui envisions a project of a post-European thinking. If Asia and Europe are to devise new modes of confronting capitalism, technology, and planetarisation, this must take place neither through a neutralisation of differences nor a return to tradition, but through an individuation of thinking between East and West.
Table of Contents
Prelude: The Standpoint of Heimatlosigkeit
Chapter One: Philosophy and Post-Europe
Chapter Two: ‘What is Asia?’: A Question
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
