Post-Europe: in conversation with Yuk Hui
In a time when studies of Europe’s cultural identity are still dominated by the critique of Eurocentrism – the critique of Europe’s pretention to being the civilisational model for all to follow – Yuk Hui’s work stands out.
Attempting to think a ‘Europe beyond Eurocentrism’, Hui insists that de-coupling Europe from its past is not just about ‘imposing a decolonial political correctness upon discourse’. Striking a bold and original path, Hui calls us ‘to carry the European heritage further without imposing a linear form of universalisation’. Envisioning a project of thinking that is prepared to confront what is now a truly global condition, one where everyone is uprooted by the homogenising forces of technological-economic planetarisation, Hui argues that we must all learn – both in the West and the East – to become ‘post-Europeans’.
Meet our speaker and chair
Yuk Hui is Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he holds the Chair of Human Conditions and serves as the founding director of the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Technology. Hui is currently jury chair of the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture, and convenor of the Research Network for Philosophy and Technology. He is the author of several monographs, translated into more than a dozen languages, the most recent of which are Machine and Sovereignty (2024) and Post-Europe (2024).
Simon Glendinning is Head of the European Institute and Professor of European Philosophy at LSE. He is the author of several books, including a two-volume text on European cultural identity, Europe: A Philosophical History.
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This event is part of the European Institute's Beyond Eurocentrism Programme. The Beyond Eurocentrism programme aims to explore how the shape and shaping of Europe – its political-economy, its political policy making, or its political culture – needs to be rethought in a time of the exhaustion of Eurocentrism.
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