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Book SynopsisTranslated by Ciaran Cronin. In the midst of the current crisis that is threatening to derail the historical project of European unification, Jurgen Habermas has been one of the most perceptive critics of the ineffectual and evasive responses to the global financial crisis, especially by the German political class.
Trade Review"One of Europe's most prominent intellectuals, a social political theorist of the highest standing. In pinpointing the lack of democratic participation, he builds a case that Europe's leaders will sooner or later have to answer."
Financial Times
"A trailblazer of an emerging debate in international political theory."
Millennium
"A vital injection into the public debate on the future of the EU since it brings our attention to a central political dimension of this project, which seems to have been lost. It is also a thought-provoking contribution to several debates in political theory."
European Political Science
"The Crisis' demand for a politicised and democratised Europe is a welcome tonic to an event currently marked by its lack of vision."
Fabian Review
"We should rejoice that a philosopher like Habermas is not giving up, but calling the European elite to order. He sees an opportunity in the crisis. 'With a little backbone the crisis of the single currency can bring about what some once hoped for from a common European foreign policy, namely a cross-border awareness of a shared European destiny.'"
Global Journal
"One of the most famous living philosophers."
Radical Philosophy
"There is something refreshingly honest about Jurgen Habermas's take on the European Union."
Irish Times
"For at least a generation Jurgen Habermas's work has made a significant impact on a variety of important debates in philosophy and the social sciences."
Political Studies
"No-one articulates the 'European' ideal with greater intellectual clarity, philosophical acumen and humanist fervour than Jürgen Habermas."
Muslim World
Table of ContentsPreface
The Crisis of the European Union in Light of a Constitutionalization of International Law - An Essay on the Constitution for Europe
I. Why Europe Is Now More Than Ever a Constitutional Project
II. The European Union Must Decide between Transnational Democracy and Post-Democratic Executive Federalism
III. From the International to the Cosmopolitan Community
The Concept of Human Dignity and the Realistic Utopia of Human Rights
Appendix: The Europe of the Federal Republic
I. After the Bankruptcy
II. The Euro Will Decide the Fate of the European Union
III. A Pact for or against Europe?
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