Europe: The Faltering Project

Author’s Preface

Translator’s Preface

I Portraits

1. “...And to define America, her athletic Democracy.” In Memory of Richard Rorty.

2. How to Answer the Ethical Question: Derrida and Religion

3. Ronald Dworkin – A Maverick among Legal Scholars

II. Europe, the Faltering Project

4. An Avantgardistic Intuition for Relevances: The Role of the Intellectual and European Question

5. What is Meant by a “Post-secular Society”? A Discussion on Islam in Europe

6. European Politics at an Impasse: A Plea for a Policy of Graduated Integration

7. The Constitutionalization of International Law and the Problems of Legitimating a Constitution for World Society

III. On Reason in the Public Sphere

8. Media, Markets and Consumers: The Quality Press as the Backbone of the Public Sphere

9. Political Communication in Media Society – Does Democracy still have an epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research

Afterword: Lessons of the Financial Crisis