title: Europe: The Faltering Project
author: Jurgen Habermas
description: "There is something refreshingly honest about Jurgen Habermas's take on the European Union ... provide[s] illuminating accesible reflections on three of Habermas's contemporaries, Ronald Dworkin, Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty... <i>Europe, The Faltering Project</i> is an engaging book that discusses with honesty the issues at the heart of the Lisbon Treaty and the future of the European Union."<br /><b>Book of the day in the </b><i><b>Irish Times<br /> </b></i>
zlib_text: Constellations Volume 10, No 3, 2003. © Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK 
  and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA.
  February 15, or What Binds Europeans Together: 
  A Plea for a Common Foreign Policy, Beginning in 
  the Core of Europe
  Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida
  It is the wish of Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas to be co-signatories of what
  is both an analysis and an appeal. They regard it as necessary and urgent that
  French and German philosophers lift their voices together, whatever disagreements
  may have separated them in the past. The following text was composed by Jürgen
  Habermas, as will be readily apparent. Though he would have liked to very much,
  due to personal circumstances Jacques Derrida was unable to compose his own
  text. Nevertheless, he suggested to Jürgen Habermas that he be the co-signatory of
  this appeal, and shares its definitive premises and perspectives: the determination
  of new European political responsibilities beyon