Habermas The Lure of Technocracy

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8683-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Over the past 25 years, Jürgen Habermas has presented whatis arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of theproject of European unification and of parallel developmentstowards a politically integrated world society. In developing hiskey concepts of the transnationalisation of democracy and theconstitutionalisation of international law, Habermas offers themain players in the struggles over the fate of the European Union(the politicians, the political parties and the publics of themember states) a way out of the current economic and politicalcrisis, should they choose to follow it.
In the title essay Habermas addresses the challenges and threatsposed by the current banking and public debt crisis in the Eurozonefor European unification. He is harshly critical of theincrementalist, technocratic policies advocated by the Germangovernment in particular, which are being imposed at the expense ofthe populations of the economically weaker, crisis-strickencountries and are undermining solidarity between the member states.He argues that only if the technocratic approach is replaced by adeeper democratization of the European institutions can theEuropean Union fulfil its promise as a model for how rampant marketcapitalism can once again be brought under political control at thesupranational level.
This volume reflects the impressive scope of Habermas?s recentwritings on European themes, including theoretical treatments ofthe complex legal and political issues at stake, interventions oncurrent affairs, and reflections on the lives and works of majorEuropean philosophers and intellectuals. Together the essaysprovide eloquent testimony to the enduring relevance of the work ofone of the most influential and far-sighted public intellectuals inthe world today, and are essential reading for all philosophers,legal scholars and social scientists interested in European andglobal issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Habermas, Jürgen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 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

Über Autor(innen)

Jürgen Habermas is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at theJohann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt and one of the mostinfluential social and political thinkers in the world today.