Habermas and European integration : social and cultural modernity beyond the nation-state / Shivdeep Grewal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grewal, Shivdeep, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Habermas, Jürgen.

European Union.

European Union countries--Politics and government.

European Union countries.

European Union countries--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 132 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Summary:

From its conception to the referenda of 2005 where it met its end, German philosopher Jurgen Habermas wrote in support of the European Constitution. This is the first in-depth account of his project. Emphasis is placed on the conception of the European Union that informed his political prescriptions.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures and tables

Preface and acknowledgements

Preface to the second edition

Abbreviations

Introduction: Modernity, welfare state and EUtopia

Part I Social modernity

Habermas on European integration

Metatheory

Integration theory

Democratic theory

Part II Cultural modernity

Rationalisation

Neoconservatism

Cartographies of disenchantment

Part III Empirical research

The conceptual landscape of the Constitutional Convention

Conclusion: An unfinished project?

Afterword

Appendix: The writers of social science

References

Index.

Notes:

Previous edition: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526142740

1526142740

9781526142726

1526142724

OCLC:

1120120110