Review article

CONSTITUTIONALISM, EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY IN THE POLITICAL WRITINGS OF HABERMAS

Samir Vrabec orcid.org/0000-0001-8276-460X ; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

This paper explores Habermas’s political philosophy of personal and collective identity and the role of constitution in building a post-national constellation in his political writings. Habermas’s stances on European identity and the role that the European constitution-making process could have on the formation of aforementioned identity are reviewed, with responses to the no-demos thesis through his concept of constitutional patriotism. Author argues that constitutional patriotism and proceduralism in his political and legalistic observations seems to be the more realistic part of his discourse, while his search for European identity as pre-political viewpoint through the model of European political spheres still remains part of the idealistic vision.

Keywords

Jürgen Habermas; Europe; Constitution; Identity; Constitutional Patriotism

Hrčak ID:

135831

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/135831

Publication date:

5.3.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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