Time of Transitions (PDF)

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. In this new volume of
essays and interviews, Habermas focuses his attention on these
processes of change and provides some of the resources needed to
understand them.

What kind of international order should we seek to create in our
contemporary global age? How should we understand the political
project of Europe and how can the democratic deficit of the EU be
overcome? How should we understand the relation between democracy
as popular sovereignty, which has become the defining principle of
political legitimacy in the modern world, and the idea of basic
human rights embodied in the rule of law?

Habermas brings his formidable powers of analysis and his
distinctive theoretical perspective to bear on these and other key
questions of the modern age. His analysis is shaped throughout by
his commitment to informed public debate and his powerful advocacy
of a postnational renewal of the project of constitutional
democracy.

Time of Transitions will be essential reading for all
students and scholars of sociology and politics, and it will be of
interest to anyone concerned with the key social and political
questions of our time.