Europe: the Faltering Project

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"There is something refreshingly honest about Jurgen Habermas's take on the European Union ... provide[s] illuminating accesible reflections on three of Habermas's contemporaries, Ronald Dworkin, Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty ... Europe, The Faltering Project is an engaging book that discusses with honesty the issues at the heart of the Lisbon Treaty and the future of the European Union."Book of the day in the Irish Times "Habermas's reflections on Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida and Ronald Dworkin provide additional context for his later essays. But it is in the second and third parts of the book that Habermas shines most brightly."European Voice.;Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Author's Preface -- Translator's Preface -- Part I: Portraits -- 1: ' ... And to define America, her athletic Democracy': In Memory of Richard Rorty -- 2: How to Answer the Ethical Question: Derrida and Religion -- 3: Ronald Dworkin -- A Maverick among Legal Scholars -- Part II: Europe, the Faltering Project -- 4: An Avantgardistic Instinct for Relevances: The Role of the Intellectual and the European Cause -- 5: What is Meant by a 'Post-Secular Society'? A Discussion on Islam in Europe. Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Author's Preface -- Translator's Preface -- Part I: Portraits -- 1: ' ... And to define America, her athletic Democracy': In Memory of Richard Rorty -- 2: How to Answer the Ethical Question: Derrida and Religion -- 3: Ronald Dworkin -- A Maverick among Legal Scholars -- Part II: Europe, the Faltering Project -- 4: An Avantgardistic Instinct for Relevances: The Role of the Intellectual and the European Cause -- 5: What is Meant by a 'Post-Secular Society'? A Discussion on Islam in Europe. 6: European Politics at an Impasse: A Plea for a Policy of Graduated Integration -- Part III: On Reason in the Public Sphere -- 7: The Constitutionalization of International Law and the Legitimation Problems of a Constitution for World Society -- 8: Media, Markets and Consumers: The Quality Press as the Backbone of the Political Public Sphere -- 9: Political Communication in Media Society: Does Democracy still have an Epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research -- Afterword: Lessons of the Financial Crisis -- Notes -- Index.