Weber, Habermas and Transformations of the European State

Constitutional, Social, and Supranational Democracy

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

AvJohn P. McCormick,John P. Mccormick

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This book critically engages Jürgen Habermas's comprehensive vision of constitutional democracy in the European Union. John P. McCormick draws on the writings of Max Weber (and Habermas's own critique of them) to confront the difficulty of theorizing progressive politics during moments of radical state transformation. Both theorists employ normative and empirical categories, drawn from earlier historical epochs, to analyze contemporary structural transformations: Weber evaluated the emergence of the Sozialstaat with antedated categories derived from nineteenth-century and premodern historical examples; while Habermas understands the EU almost exclusively in terms of the liberal (Rechtsstaat) and welfare state (Sozialstaat) paradigms. Largely forsaking the focus on structural transformation that characterized his early work, Habermas conceptualizes the EU as a territorially expanded nation-state. McCormick demonstrates the deficiencies of such an approach and outlines a more appropriate normative-empirical model, the supranational Sektoralstaat, for evaluating prospects for constitutional and social democracy in the EU.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-01-12
Mått150 x 226 x 23 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor318
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521743631

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1. Introduction: theorizing modern transformations of law and democracy; 2. The historical logic(s) of Habermas's critique of Weber's 'sociology of law'; 3. The puzzle of law, democracy and historical change in Weber's 'sociology of law'; 4. Habermas's deliberatively legal Sozialstaat; 5. Habermas on the European Union: normative aspirations; 6. The structural transformation to the supranational Sektoralstaat and prospects for democracy in the EU; 7. Conclusion: Habermas's philosophy of history and the future of Europe.

"This ambitious work is a reflection on the fate of the state in an era of globalization and internationalization. While its focus is the European Union, it also investigates the intellectual history of the last century in an illuminating comparison of its two major ‘book ends’ in state theory -- Weber and Habermas. McCormick shows that Weber, despite Habermas’s attempt to transcend the problematic aspects of his theory, provides a resource for a compelling critique of Habermas, and that both remain highly relevant for understanding the fate of the state today." -David Dyzenhaus, University of Toronto