par Lacroix, Justine 
Référence Habermas and Law, Taylor and Francis, page (343-358)
Publication Publié, 2020-01
Référence Habermas and Law, Taylor and Francis, page (343-358)
Publication Publié, 2020-01
Partie d'ouvrage collectif
| Résumé : | This article argues that there is a discrepancy between Jürgen Habermas’s initial plea for critical and rational identities and his more recent glorification of the European model. Initially, Constitutional Patriotism could be apprehended as a critical standard for existing political practices. However, Habermas’s recent political texts tend to lose all kind of reflexive distance in their apprehension of the European identity - which is presented as distinct and even superior to its counter-model, the US. Such a ‘Europatriotic’ temptation should be resisted. The ‘thick’ European identity advocated by Habermas has no truly federative dimension and could undermine the unique normative potential of a political entity composed of distinct identities. Consequently, the article suggests an elucidation of liberal postnationalism with a view to explaining its refusal to tie Europe’s legitimacy to an identification logic. |
