The political frontiers of Europe as a civil society: J. Habermas’ rejection of a European Volk and M. Foucault's balance of power as protections against European nation‐state
With the help of J. Habermas and M. Foucault, it is argued that the idea of Europe is, first of all, the ideal of an unlimited civil society. Human rights, the rule of law and the legal European institutions are its political backbone. The European Union itself is somehow the realization of this id...
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Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
2008-12-01
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| Series: | Creativity Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/CS/article/view/7378 |