Europeans: a theoretical identity

We may not have a European demos and, consequently, find it hard to create a European democracy, but we do seem to have something called a European intellectual.

Foremost among this is the German, Jurgen Habermas, described as a second-generation Frankfurt School philosopher. The Frankfurt School, founded in Germany in the 1920s was largely Marxist, though its members concentrated not on Marx’s historical and economic theories (which have been at the root of most of the twentieth centur...