The postnational constellation : political essays / Jürgen Habermas ; translated, edited, and with...
The postnational constellation : political essays / Jürgen Habermas ; translated, edited, and with...
The postnational constellation : political essays / Jürgen Habermas ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Max Pensky.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001.
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2001.
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N320.101/ 12
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xix, 190 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. What is a People? The Frankfurt "Germanists' Assembly" of 1846 and the Self-Understanding of the Humanities of the Vormarz -- 2. On the Public Use of History -- 3. Learning from Catastrophe? A Look Back at the Short Twentieth Century -- 4. The Postnational Constellation and the Future of Democrac...
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001.
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1st MIT Press ed.
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Massachusetts
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2001.
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"Does a global economy render the traditional nation-state obsolete? Does globalization threaten democratic life, or offer it new forms of expression? What are the implications of globalization for our understanding of politics and of national and cultural identities?".
"In the Postnational Constellation, the leading German philosopher and social theorist Jurgen Habermas addresses these and other questions. He explores topics such as the historical and political origins of national identity, the catastrophes and achievement of 'the long twentieth century', the future of democracy in the wake of the era of the nati...
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The postnational constellation : political essays / Jürgen Habermas ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Max Pensky.
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Studies in contemporary German social thought.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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0262582066 (pbk.)
9780262082976 (hc. : alk. paper)
0262082977 (hc. : alk. paper)
9780262582063 (pbk.)
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320.101
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