Karolina M. Cern, PhD, Chair of Ethics at the Department of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland); author of The Conception of Time by the Early Heidegger (2007), co-author of Ethos in Public Life (2008, repr.2011); co-editor of eight volumes and author of numerous articles in practical philosophy.

• Contents: Democratic legitimation – Processes of Europeanisation – CJEU – Self-reflexive polity – Self-constitutionalisation – Constitutional patriotism – Public sphere – Normativity, values and norms – Ronald Dworkin – Neil MacCormick – Jürgen Habermas – Contractarianism – Counterfactual yardstick – Political morality – Deontology.

Karolina M. Cern, PhD, Chair of Ethics at the Department of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland); author of The Conception of Time by the Early Heidegger (2007), co-author of Ethos in Public Life (2008, repr.2011); co-editor of eight volumes and author of numerous articles in practical philosophy.

• Contents: Democratic legitimation – Processes of Europeanisation – CJEU – Self-reflexive polity – Self-constitutionalisation – Constitutional patriotism – Public sphere – Normativity, values and norms – Ronald Dworkin – Neil MacCormick – Jürgen Habermas – Contractarianism – Counterfactual yardstick – Political morality – Deontology.