Habermas and post‐national identity: Theoretical perspectives on the conflict in Northern Ireland∗
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Irish Political Studies
- Vol. 11 (1) , 20-32
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07907189608406555
Abstract
Habermas's theory of post‐national identity has mostly been developed in the context of debates on German political culture. The basic ideas underlying it have emerged from his broader theory of society, in particular his notion of discursive democracy. His critique of nationalism and his discursive model of democracy can be used to form a theory of post‐national identity which can be applied to deeply divided political cultures. The case of Northern Ireland is an example of such a situation in which conflict resolution can be solved only by the discursive transformation of national identities along post‐national lines.Keywords
This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
- Northern Ireland in a Europe of RegionsThe Political Quarterly, 1996
- The frontier and identities of exclusion in European historyHistory of European Ideas, 1996
- Negotiating the Peace in Northern IrelandJournal of Peace Research, 1995
- Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the Politics of Exclusion: 1994 Presidential AddressAmerican Sociological Review, 1995
- Inventing EuropePublished by Springer Nature ,1995
- THREE NORMATIVE MODELS OF DEMOCRACYConstellations, 1994
- Pluralist Justice and its Limits: The Case of Northern IrelandPolitical Studies, 1994
- Collective Identity Formation and the International StateAmerican Political Science Review, 1994
- can there be a supranational identity?Philosophy & Social Criticism, 1992
- Yet Again: German Identity: A Unified Nation of Angry DM-Burghers?New German Critique, 1991