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Jurgen Habermas National State Thought Study

Posted on:2021-01-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:N N ChengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2416330620476530Subject:Marxist theory
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Jurgen Habermas,one of the representative figures of the Frankfurt School of Western Marxism,has a huge and magnificent ideological system and is recognized as one of the “most influential thinkers of the modern times.” Since the 1990 s,he has begun to pay attention to the world's political and economic situation and has published many works and articles on it.These articles and works contain Habermas' s “National State Though”.Habermas pointed out that under the impact of economic globalization and cultural diversity,the crisis of modern national states has become prominent,such as the weakening of management ability,the dilution of the collective identity of national states and the conflicts between nationalism and republicanism,and so on.Based on this,Habermas pointed out that the traditional national state needs to be transformed into post-national state,because the post-national state can ease the crisis of the national state,and the EU has shown some features of the post-national state.Therefore,Habermas put forward an idea to overcome the crisis of traditional national state,which is to transcend national state and form a post-national state with collective identity of constitutional patriotism.Then establishing a “world civil society” on this basis,so that the rights and interests of every citizen are guaranteed.The first part of this thesis analyzes the generating logic and formation of Habermas' national state theory mainly from the backgroundof the times and ideological origin of his thought.The second part analyzes the main contents of Habermas' national state theory,first discussing the formation of the national state and its legitimacy;second,analyzing the challenges faced by the national state;finally,to face these challenges,Habermas proposes to transcend the national state and form a post-national state with collective identity of constitutional patriotism.Spreading constitutional patriotism from the post-national state of Europe to the whole world and establishing a world civil society.If the post-national state has sprouted in modern time,then the world civil society is Habermas' conception of the future society.The third part comments on Habermas' national state theory.His thought has enlightening significance to Marx's national thought,western Marxist national theory and human destiny community,but it also has restriction.
Keywords/Search Tags:Economic Globalization, National State, Post-National State, World Civil Society
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