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):

Constitutional law--European Union countries.

Constitutional law.

European cooperation.

European federation.

Law--Europe--Philosophy.

Law.

European Union countries--Politics and government.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, Michigan : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Summary:

German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has written extensively on the European Union. This is the only in-depth account of his project. Published now in paperback to coincide with the celebration of his ninetieth birthday, a new preface considers Habermas's writings on the eurozone and refugee crises, populism and Brexit, and the presidency of Emmanuel Macron.Placing an emphasis on the conception of the EU that informs Habermas's political prescriptions, the book is divided into two main parts. The first considers the unfolding of 'social modernity' at the level of the EU. Among the subjects covered are Habermas's concept of juridification, the latter's affinities with integration theories such as neofunctionalism, and the application of Habermas's democratic theory to the EU. The second part addresses 'cultural modernity' in Europe - 'Europessimism' is argued to be a subset of the broader cultural pessimism that assailed the project of modernity in the late twentieth century, and with renewed intensity in the years since 9/11.

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:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526142740

1526142740

9781526142726

1526142724

OCLC:

1120120110