{"product_id":"time-of-transitions-hardback-9780745630106","title":"Time of Transitions (Hardback) 9780745630106","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTime of Transitions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJürgen Habermas (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745630106, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 February 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.9 x 16.3 x 2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWe live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries – such as the international order of sovereign nation-states – are being called into question. In this new volume of essays and interviews, Habermas focuses his attention on these processes of change and provides some of the resources needed to understand them. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat kind of international order should we seek to create in our contemporary global age? How should we understand the political project of Europe and how can the democratic deficit of the EU be overcome? How should we understand the relation between democracy as popular sovereignty, which has become the defining principle of political legitimacy in the modern world, and the idea of basic human rights embodied in the rule of law?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHabermas brings his formidable powers of analysis and his distinctive theoretical perspective to bear on these and other key questions of the modern age. His analysis is shaped throughout by his commitment to informed public debate and his powerful advocacy of a postnational renewal of the project of constitutional democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime of Transitions\u003c\/i\u003e will be essential reading for all students and scholars of sociology and politics, and it will be of interest to anyone concerned with the key social and political questions of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAuthor’s Foreword. \u003cp\u003ePart I From Bonn to Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 There are Alternatives!.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II Interventions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 From Power Politics to Cosmopolitan Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 A Sort of Logo of the Free West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Finger of Blame: The Germans and Their Memorial.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III Public Reeprsentation and Cultural Memory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Symbolic Expression and Ritual Behavior: Ernst Cassirer and Arnold Gehlen Revisited.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart IV Europe in Transition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Euroskepticism, Market Europe, or a Europe of (World) Citizens?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Does Europe need a Constitution?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart V A Question of Political Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Constitutional Democracy - A Paradoxical Union of Contradictory Principles?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart VI American Pragmatism and German Philosophy: Three Reviews.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Richard Rorty, Achieving our Country.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Robert Brandom, Making it Explicit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart VII Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 A Conversation about God and The World.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52406613377304,"sku":"9780745630106","price":42.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745630106.jpg?v=1784140809","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/time-of-transitions-hardback-9780745630106","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}