Constitution without a State? An analysis of habermasian proposal for a global politics without a world government

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https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2020v19n2p318

Abstract

This paper presents and analyzes the habermasian proposal for global politics without a world government. This will be done in three moments: first, the habermasian cosmopolitan model is presented; it will be stressed the multilevel system of institutions, which embrace the thesis of Constitution without a State; second, will be presented some objections to Habemas’s thesis elaborated recently by William Scheuerman; finally, this paper analyzes to what extent habermasian theory offers answers to these objections.

Author Biography

Cristina Foroni Consani, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, P.R.

Professora Adjunta no Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade Federal do Paraná. Doutora em Filosofia e Mestre em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

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2020-09-21

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Vol. 19 No. 2 (2020): Dossier Cosmopolitanism + Continuous Flow

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Dossier Cosmopolitanism

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