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Jurgen Habermas

Jurgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, is director of the Max Planck Institut. As Marx, he is interested in the capitalism tendency to crisis. He is also a theorist of the Constitutional Patriotism, a patriotism dissociated from the Nation state.

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«The illusory No of the Left”

by Jurgen Habermas

17 May 2005

For a long time, the unification of Europe was a direct responsibility of the political elites whereas the citizens had nothing to criticize for their interests were not affected. In the Europe of the 25, not all countries can have responsibilities and the citizens refused to be led in a (...)