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Book SynopsisOver the past 25 years, Jurgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of the project of European unification and of parallel developments towards a politically integrated world society.
Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition vii
Part I: The Lure of Technocracy
1 The Lure of Technocracy: A Plea for European Solidarity 3
2 European Citizens and European Peoples: The Problem of Transnationalizing Democracy 29
3 Keywords on a Discourse Theory of Law and of the Democratic Constitutional State 46
Part II: European Conditions. Continued Interventions
4 The Next Step–An Interview 63
5 The Dilemma Facing the Political Parties 73
6 Three Reasons for ‘More Europe’ 80
7 Democracy or Capitalism? On the Abject Spectacle of a Capitalistic World Society Fragmented along National Lines 85
Part III: German Jews, Germans and Jews
8 Jewish Philosophers and Sociologists as Returnees in the Early Federal Republic of Germany: A Recollection 105
9 Martin Buber–A Philosophy of Dialogue in its Historical Context 119
10 Our Contemporary Heine: ‘There are No Longer Nations in Europe’ 137
Notes and References 154
