Books by Jurgen (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt) Habermas

Advocates a policy of gradual integration of Europe in which key decisions about Europe's future are put in the hands of its people, and a 'bipolar commonality' of the West in which a more unified Europe is able to work closely with the United States to build a more stable and equitable international order.

aeo A new book by Habermas which examines recent German history and some of the political challenges facing Europe today aeo Addresses the legacy of anti--semitism both in Germany and throughout Europe aeo Develops an original argument for the growing significance of transnational and global democratic institutions.

In this book Jurgen Habermas - the most influential philosopher and social thinker in Germany today - takes up the question of genetic engineering and its ethical implications and subjects it to careful philosophical scrutiny.

Make no mistake, the normative authority of the United States of America lies in ruins. Such is the judgment of the most influential thinker in Europe today reflecting on the political repercussions of the war in Iraq.

We live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries - such as the international order of sovereign nation-states - are being called into question.

A major new book by one of the leading philosophers and social thinkers in the world today. This book examines the tension between the spread of naturalistic views (exemplified by the rise of biogenetics), on the one hand, and the rise of religious orthodoxies and revitalization of religious traditions, on the other.