Gaspare M. Genna is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso. Thomas O. Haakenson is Associate Provost at the California College of Arts. Ian W. Wilson is Associate Professor of German and Humanities at Centre College

"Known for his somewhat dry and juridical appeals to a kind of permanent Kantian Law, Jurgen Habermas – the central intellectual of the EU’s German center – arises here in a very different light. This timely study reveals instead an urgently popular thinker concerned with simple dignity and fellow-feeling, berating his troubled homeland as a "self-absorbed colossus" as Europe teeters on the brink. This book gives cosmopolitanism a new life at the very moment of its threatened extinction". - Timothy A. Brennan, University of Minnesota

• List of TablesList of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroductionGaspare M. Genna and Ian W. WilsonSection 1. Foundations1. Democracy as Ideal and Practice: Historicizing The Crisis of the European UnionChristian Bailey2. Habermas on Human Dignity as the Origin of Human Rights and Egalitarian, Utopian ThinkingJennifer FredetteSection 2. Values 3. Cosmopolitanism, Trust, and Support for European IntegrationGaspare M. Genna4. European Reform from the Bottom Up? The Presence and Effects of Cosmopolitan Values in GermanyAubrey WestfallSection 3. Tools 5. Reason, Faith, and Europe: Two German Perspectives What is Europe?James M. Skidmore6. Cosmopolitan Reflections: Jürgen Habermas and W. G. SebaldIan W. WilsonSection 4. Institutions 7. Educating the European Union: Internationalization through IntegrationThomas O. Haakenson8. European Integration and Economic InterestsMarcella Myer9. Does German Austerity Travel? The Baltic States’ Reactions to the Euro Crisis.David O. Rossbach10. On the Pouvoir Constituent of the European UnionErik O. EriksenConclusionGaspare M. Genna and Ian W. Wilson Index

Gaspare M. Genna is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso. Thomas O. Haakenson is Associate Provost at the California College of Arts. Ian W. Wilson is Associate Professor of German and Humanities at Centre College

"Known for his somewhat dry and juridical appeals to a kind of permanent Kantian Law, Jurgen Habermas – the central intellectual of the EU’s German center – arises here in a very different light. This timely study reveals instead an urgently popular thinker concerned with simple dignity and fellow-feeling, berating his troubled homeland as a "self-absorbed colossus" as Europe teeters on the brink. This book gives cosmopolitanism a new life at the very moment of its threatened extinction". - Timothy A. Brennan, University of Minnesota

• List of TablesList of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroductionGaspare M. Genna and Ian W. WilsonSection 1. Foundations1. Democracy as Ideal and Practice: Historicizing The Crisis of the European UnionChristian Bailey2. Habermas on Human Dignity as the Origin of Human Rights and Egalitarian, Utopian ThinkingJennifer FredetteSection 2. Values 3. Cosmopolitanism, Trust, and Support for European IntegrationGaspare M. Genna4. European Reform from the Bottom Up? The Presence and Effects of Cosmopolitan Values in GermanyAubrey WestfallSection 3. Tools 5. Reason, Faith, and Europe: Two German Perspectives What is Europe?James M. Skidmore6. Cosmopolitan Reflections: Jürgen Habermas and W. G. SebaldIan W. WilsonSection 4. Institutions 7. Educating the European Union: Internationalization through IntegrationThomas O. Haakenson8. European Integration and Economic InterestsMarcella Myer9. Does German Austerity Travel? The Baltic States’ Reactions to the Euro Crisis.David O. Rossbach10. On the Pouvoir Constituent of the European UnionErik O. EriksenConclusionGaspare M. Genna and Ian W. Wilson Index

Gaspare M. Genna is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso. Thomas O. Haakenson is Associate Provost at the California College of Arts. Ian W. Wilson is Associate Professor of German and Humanities at Centre College

"Known for his somewhat dry and juridical appeals to a kind of permanent Kantian Law, Jurgen Habermas – the central intellectual of the EU’s German center – arises here in a very different light. This timely study reveals instead an urgently popular thinker concerned with simple dignity and fellow-feeling, berating his troubled homeland as a "self-absorbed colossus" as Europe teeters on the brink. This book gives cosmopolitanism a new life at the very moment of its threatened extinction". - Timothy A. Brennan, University of Minnesota

• List of TablesList of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroductionGaspare M. Genna and Ian W. WilsonSection 1. Foundations1. Democracy as Ideal and Practice: Historicizing The Crisis of the European UnionChristian Bailey2. Habermas on Human Dignity as the Origin of Human Rights and Egalitarian, Utopian ThinkingJennifer FredetteSection 2. Values 3. Cosmopolitanism, Trust, and Support for European IntegrationGaspare M. Genna4. European Reform from the Bottom Up? The Presence and Effects of Cosmopolitan Values in GermanyAubrey WestfallSection 3. Tools 5. Reason, Faith, and Europe: Two German Perspectives What is Europe?James M. Skidmore6. Cosmopolitan Reflections: Jürgen Habermas and W. G. SebaldIan W. WilsonSection 4. Institutions 7. Educating the European Union: Internationalization through IntegrationThomas O. Haakenson8. European Integration and Economic InterestsMarcella Myer9. Does German Austerity Travel? The Baltic States’ Reactions to the Euro Crisis.David O. Rossbach10. On the Pouvoir Constituent of the European UnionErik O. EriksenConclusionGaspare M. Genna and Ian W. Wilson Index