Post-national structure

Author: Habermas (Germany) Cao Weidong
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: Although not very lengthy, this books Habermas's understanding, critique, and reconstruction of current German domestic politics and international politics. Particularly, the so-called "global governance system without a world government" he proposed has elicited strong responses in contemporary Western political theory and other areas of practical politics, even becoming a theoretical resource for the European Union's political reforms. The book collects 10 important essays by the author in recent years, divided into four themes. Theme One discusses the national context as a historical product, offering the author's perspective on the political self-understanding in the spirit sciences during the March Revolution in Germany, and then elaborates on the issue of historical utility. Theme Two addresses post-ethnic structures, linking the issue of ethnicity with democracy and human rights, reflecting on the removal or persistence of ethnic barriers in the current global situation. Theme Three explores the self-understanding of modernity, further reflecting on modernity through a review of theoretical traditions and a commemoration of Herbert Marcuse's lifelong pursuit of politics and philosophy. Theme Four explains the author's views on cloned humans. The book also includes a bibliography of the author's research from 1959 to 1981. The author of this book is a towering figure in contemporary Western academia and a representative of new Marxism. The chapters collected in this book are deeply concerned with reality but more focused on profound theoretical discussions, thus holding significant academic value. For social science workers to understand Western thought, advance academic reflection and construction, it holds positive significance and can be listed as a mandatory reading for philosophy and sociology researchers and liberal arts students.