Editor's Introduction.

Translator's Note. Preface.

Part I: How Rational is the Authority of the Ought?:.

1. A Genealogical Analysis of the Cognitive Content of Morality.

Part II: Political Liberalism: A Debate with John Rawls: .

2. Reconciliation through the Public Use of Reason.

3."Reasonable" versus "True," or the Morality of Worldviews.

Part III: Is There a Future for the Nation-State? .

4. The European Nation-State: On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship.

5. On the Relation between the Nation, The Rule of Law, and Democracy.

6. Does Europe Need a Constitution?Response to Dieter Grimm.

Part IV: Human Rights: Global and Internal.

7. Kant's Idea of Perpetual Peace: At Two Hundred Years' Historical Remove.

8. Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic Constitutional State.

Part V: What Is Meant by "Deliberative Politics"?:.

9. Three Normative Models of Democracy.

10. On the Internal Relation between the Rule of Law and Democracy.

Notes.

Index.

Jürgen Habermas has been awarded the prestigious 'Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels' prize for 2001