Habermas and European Integration - Social and Cultural Modernity Beyond the Nation State

Informationen zum Autor Shivdeep Grewal has taught at Brunel University and University College London Klappentext 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-this approach entails a deep engagement with his academic and political writings, and with influential treatments of the European integration process, such as the writings of E.B. Haas. Zusammenfassung 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-this approach entails a deep engagement with his academic and political writings! and with influential treatments of the European integration process! such as the writings of E.B. Haas. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Figures and tablesContributors Preface and acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Modernity, welfare state and Eutopia PART I: Social modernity1 Habermas on European integration 2 Metatheory 3 Integration theory 4 Democratic theory PART II: Cultural modernity5 Rationalisation 6 Neoconservatism 7 Cartographies of disenchantment PART III: Empirical research8 The conceptual landscape of the Constitutional Convention Conclusion: An unfinished project? Afterword John Goff References Index

Product details

• Authors: Shivdeep Grewal, Shivdeep Singh Grewal, Singh Grewal Shivdeep, Shivdeep Singh Grewal
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2012
• EAN: 9780719078705
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7870-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Europe in Change; Europe in Change (Hardcover); Europe in Change; Europe in Change (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education