Table of Contents

Figures and tables
Contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Modernity, welfare state and Eutopia
PART I: Social modernity
1. Habermas on European integration
2. Metatheory
3. Integration theory
4. Democratic theory
PART II: Cultural modernity
5. Rationalisation
6. Neoconservatism
7. Cartographies of disenchantment
PART III: Empirical research
8. The conceptual landscape of the Constitutional Convention
Conclusion: An unfinished project?
Afterword – John Goff
References
Index

About the Author

Shivdeep Grewal has taught at Brunel University and University College London

Reviews

Habermas and European Integration…starts with a review of Habermas’s changing attitudes towards European unification over the past 30 years. Then Grewal...reconstructs pertinent aspects of Habermas’s scholarly work over roughly the same period, surveying it in the context of the philosopher’s developing political concerns.
Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed

This splendid little book traces some interesting and important connections between Habermas’s theoretical work and his analyses of the European Union, linking one of Europe’s most important contemporary thinkers with its most important current political project.
William Outhwaite, Newcastle University

a particularly worthwhile read for scholars and postgraduate students of European studies who are interested in an analysis of the EU beyond the scope of mainstream theories.
Nele Kortendiek , The London School of Economics, LSE blog

"The work... offers a new, insightful perspective on Habermas's work..."

"Grewal discusses how modernity has unfolded beyond the nation-state by unraveling the notion into its social and cultural segment."

"... Grewal's study is a strong analysis of how the European lifeworld has been transformed by social and cultural modernity..."

"... Grewal's study is... an important contribution to broadening the theoretical horizon of how to conceive of Europe. It will be a particularly worthwhile read for scholars and postgraduate students of European studies who are interested in an analysis of the EU beyond the scope of mainstream theories."

The work fulfils a dual purpose: first, it offers a new, insightful perspective on Habermas's work and second, it introduces the idea of the EU as furthering the unfinished project of modernity, putting forward an original view on Europe.

excellent research-turned-into-a-book....a thorough analysis
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