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The Lure of Technocracy (Hardcover)
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The Lure of Technocracy (Hardcover)
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Over the past 25 years, Jurgen Habermas has presented what is
arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of the project
of European unification and of parallel developments towards a
politically integrated world society. In developing his key
concepts of the transnationalisation of democracy and the
constitutionalisation of international law, Habermas offers the
main players in the struggles over the fate of the European Union
(the politicians, the political parties and the publics of the
member states) a way out of the current economic and political
crisis, should they choose to follow it. In the title essay
Habermas addresses the challenges and threats posed by the current
banking and public debt crisis in the Eurozone for European
unification. He is harshly critical of the incrementalist,
technocratic policies advocated by the German government in
particular, which are being imposed at the expense of the
populations of the economically weaker, crisis-stricken countries
and are undermining solidarity between the member states. He argues
that only if the technocratic approach is replaced by a deeper
democratization of the European institutions can the European Union
fulfil its promise as a model for how rampant market capitalism can
once again be brought under political control at the supranational
level. This volume reflects the impressive scope of Habermas?s
recent writings on European themes, including theoretical
treatments of the complex legal and political issues at stake,
interventions on current affairs, and reflections on the lives and
works of major European philosophers and intellectuals. Together
the essays provide eloquent testimony to the enduring relevance of
the work of one of the most influential and far-sighted public
intellectuals in the world today, and are essential reading for all
philosophers, legal scholars and social scientists interested in
European and global issues.
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