Screen LibraryWeber, Habermas, and transformations of the European state：constitutional, social, and supranational democracy
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 301 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0521811406 (hardback) 9780521811408 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | D950 |
| CLC: | D950.1-09 |
| Call Number: | D950.1-09/M131 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: theorizing modern transformations of law and democracy -- Critical theory and structural transformations -- Critical theory and the supranational constellation -- Law, democracy and state transformation today -- The historical logic(s) of Habermas's critique of Weber's "sociology of law" -- The fragility of legal-rational legitimacy -- Moral underpinnings of formal law -- The possibility of rationally coherent Sozialstaat law -- Secularization, commodification and history -- Excursus: the transformation of Habermas's theory of history -- Philosophy of history and the sociology |