Jürgen Habermas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt and one of the most influential social and political thinkers in the world today. Polity has published his most important works in English, including Between Naturalism and Religion (2008).

• Author’s PrefaceTranslator’s PrefaceI Portraits1. “...And to define America, her athletic Democracy.” In Memory of Richard Rorty.2. How to Answer the Ethical Question: Derrida and Religion3. Ronald Dworkin – A Maverick among Legal ScholarsII. Europe, the Faltering Project4. An Avantgardistic Intuition for Relevances: The Role of the Intellectual and European Question5. What is Meant by a “Post-secular Society”? A Discussion on Islam in Europe6. European Politics at an Impasse: A Plea for a Policy of Graduated Integration7. The Constitutionalization of International Law and the Problems of Legitimating a Constitution for World SocietyIII. On Reason in the Public Sphere8. Media, Markets and Consumers: The Quality Press as the Backbone of the Public Sphere9. Political Communication in Media Society – Does Democracy still have an epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical ResearchAfterword: Lessons of the Financial Crisis

"There is something refreshingly honest about Jurgen Habermas's take on the European Union ... provide[s] illuminating accesible reflections on three of Habermas's contemporaries, Ronald Dworkin, Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty... Europe, The Faltering Project is an engaging book that discusses with honesty the issues at the heart of the Lisbon Treaty and the future of the European Union."Book of the day in the Irish Times"Habermas's reflections on Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida and Ronald Dworkin provide additional context for his later essays. But it is in the second and third parts of the book that Habermas shines most brightly."European Voice