1st Edition
Jürgen Habermas and the European Economic Crisis Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered
Introduction
Gaspare M. Genna and Ian W. Wilson
Section 1. Foundations
1. Democracy as Ideal and Practice: Historicizing The Crisis of the European Union
Christian Bailey
2. Habermas on Human Dignity as the Origin of Human Rights and Egalitarian, Utopian Thinking
Jennifer Fredette
Section 2. Values
3. Cosmopolitanism, Trust, and Support for European Integration
Gaspare M. Genna
4. European Reform from the Bottom Up? The Presence and Effects of Cosmopolitan Values in Germany
Aubrey Westfall
Section 3. Tools
5. Reason, Faith, and Europe: Two German Perspectives What is Europe?
James M. Skidmore
6. Cosmopolitan Reflections: Jürgen Habermas and W. G. Sebald
Ian W. Wilson
Section 4. Institutions
7. Educating the European Union: Internationalization through Integration
Thomas O. Haakenson
8. European Integration and Economic Interests
Marcella Myer
9. Does German Austerity Travel? The Baltic States’ Reactions to the Euro Crisis.
David O. Rossbach
10. On the Pouvoir Constituent of the European Union
Erik O. Eriksen
Conclusion
Gaspare M. Genna and Ian W. Wilson
Biography
Gaspare M. Genna is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Thomas O. Haakenson is Associate Provost at the California College of Arts.
Ian W. Wilson is Associate Professor of German and Humanities at Centre College
"Known for his somewhat dry and juridical appeals to a kind of permanent Kantian Law, Jurgen Habermas – the central intellectual of the EU’s German center – arises here in a very different light. This timely study reveals instead an urgently popular thinker concerned with simple dignity and fellow-feeling, berating his troubled homeland as a "self-absorbed colossus" as Europe teeters on the brink. This book gives cosmopolitanism a new life at the very moment of its threatened extinction". - Timothy A. Brennan, University of Minnesota
