Habermas Awaits Europe

Jürgen Habermas, a prominent Western intellectual, struggled to sleep after a conference on political citizenship and national identity in Valencia, Spain, amidst the post-Soviet landscape. He expressed concerns about the resurgence of nationalism fueled by economic hardship and a lack of progressive democratic progress. Habermas’s reflections highlighted anxieties about the future of European integration and the potential for a return to authoritarian tendencies.

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