Author: Jürgen Habermas | Journal of Democracy

Jürgen Habermas, the distinguished German philosopher, is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and professor of philosophy at Northwestern University. His many books include The Postnational Constellation (2001) and, most recently, Truth and Justification (2003).

October 2003, Volume 14, Issue 4

Making Sense of the EU: Toward a Cosmopolitan Europe

Jürgen Habermas

The EU represents an opportunity not only to fashion a postnational welfare state capable of responding to a postnational economy, but to lay a groundwork that will ultimately make possible a global domestic policy.