Summary Of "The Crisis Of Welfare State And Depletion Of Utopian Energies" By Jürgen Habermas - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES - E-book - ePub

We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author. POLITICAL ESSAYSTHE CRISIS OF WELFARE STATE AND DEPLETION OF UTOPIAN ENERGIES           1. From the end of the 18th century, in the West, a new awareness of the time is being formed: the present is conceived as a transition towards the new, towards a future that will be different. The past is also taken into account: for the first time, history is considered as a unitary process that affects all of humanity.
However, Modernity will no longer be guided by the guidelines of the past, but instead tries to extract its own rules of action from itself. The "spirit of the times" receives the contributions of two apparently contrary intellectual movements: historical and utopian thought. Utopian thought proposes alternative social models to those that have existed historically.