Time of Transitions

Part I From Bonn to Berlin.

1 There are Alternatives!.

Part II Interventions.

2 From Power Politics to Cosmopolitan Society.

3 A Sort of Logo of the Free West.

4 The Finger of Blame: The Germans and Their Memorial.

Part III Public Reeprsentation and Cultural Memory.

5 Symbolic Expression and Ritual Behavior: Ernst Cassirer and Arnold Gehlen Revisited.

Part IV Europe in Transition.

6 Euroskepticism, Market Europe, or a Europe of (World) Citizens?.

7 Does Europe need a Constitution?.

Part V A Question of Political Theory.

8 Constitutional Democracy - A Paradoxical Union of Contradictory Principles?.

Part VI American Pragmatism and German Philosophy: Three Reviews.

9 John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty.

10 Richard Rorty, Achieving our Country.

11 Robert Brandom, Making it Explicit.

Part VII Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome.

12 A Conversation about God and The World.

Notes.

Index.