Description
Book SynopsisWe live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries - such as the international order of sovereign nation-states - are being called into question.
Table of ContentsAuthor’s Foreword.
Part I From Bonn to Berlin.
1 There are Alternatives!.
Part II Interventions.
2 From Power Politics to Cosmopolitan Society.
3 A Sort of Logo of the Free West.
4 The Finger of Blame: The Germans and Their Memorial.
Part III Public Reeprsentation and Cultural Memory.
5 Symbolic Expression and Ritual Behavior: Ernst Cassirer and Arnold Gehlen Revisited.
Part IV Europe in Transition.
6 Euroskepticism, Market Europe, or a Europe of (World) Citizens?.
7 Does Europe need a Constitution?.
Part V A Question of Political Theory.
8 Constitutional Democracy - A Paradoxical Union of Contradictory Principles?.
Part VI American Pragmatism and German Philosophy: Three Reviews.
9 John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty.
10 Richard Rorty, Achieving our Country.
11 Robert Brandom, Making it Explicit.
Part VII Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome.
12 A Conversation about God and The World.
Notes.
Index.
