Thursday, April 02, 2015

Wolfgang Streeck's response to Habermas

Wolfgang Streeck's response to Habermas's critique of his book "Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism" (Verso Books, 2014):

"Small-State Nostalgia? The Currency Union, Germany, and Europe: A Reply to Jürgen Habermas" [pdf]



See the original papers in German here:


Jürgen Habermas - "Demokratie oder Kapitalismus? Vom Elend der nationalstaatlichen Fragmentierung in einer kapitalistisch integrierten Weltgesellschaft”, in "Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik" 5/2013, pp. 59-70. [English translation here. Also in J. Habermas - "The Lure of Technocracy" (Polity Press, 2015), pp. 85-102.]


Wolfgang Streeck - "Vom DM-Nationalismus zum Euro-Patriotismus? Ein Replik auf Jürgen Habermas“, in "Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik" 9/2013, pp. 75-92.



See also a paper on the Habermas/Streeck debate:

Thomas Biebricher & Frieder Vogelmann - "Die Zukunft Europas zwischen Demokratie und Kapitalismus" [pdf] [published in "Politische Vierteljahresschrift" 1/2014.]



See also two videos of discussions of Streeck's book:

* Columbia University, April 3, 2014 [Wolfgang Streeck, Adam Tooze, Katharina Pistor, Bruce Kogut, and Josh Whitford.]
* London School of Economics and Political Science, October 20, 2014 [Wolfgang Streeck, Colin Crouch, and David Soskice.] 

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