In this latest installment of his Little Political Writings, Jürgen Habermas reunites his most recent incursions as an intellectual in the political arena. In its central pages the discussion on the present and the future of Europe is continued, with a new analysis on the power of technocratic elites in European politics and the outline of a discursive theory of the democratic state of law. The first part of the book, "German Jews, Germans and Jews", collects personal reflections and recollections on the generation of Jewish emigrants who returned to Germany after World War II to become "irreplaceable teachers". But there was also a "return of those who did not return." The relationship between the Jew and the German is also studied in two lucid essays dedicated to Martin Buber and Heinrich Heine. The present Spanish edition includes an interview granted by Habermas shortly after the ...read more