Postnational Identity: Critical Theory and Existential Philosophy in Habermas, Kierkegaard, ... Book

1	Identity Crises and the Present Age	3
1.1	Habermas's Question to Kierkegaard	5
1.2	Postnational Identity and Multiculturalism	20
2	Ethics, Morality, and Identity	29
2.1	Habermas's Reading of Hegel with Kantian Means	30
2.2	The Regulative Ideal of Communicative Ethics	44
3	Identity and System	55
3.1	Habermas's Reading of Marx	57
3.2	The Present Age in Existential and Legitimation Crises	67
4	Self-Realization and Self-Determination	78
4.1	Habermas's Reading of Mead: Individual and Community	79
4.2	Habermas's Reading of Durkheim	97
5	The Performative Mode of Identity	107
5.1	The Performative Notion of the Individual	109
5.2	A Kierkegaardian Transformation of the Performative	116
6	Communicating Existence	127
6.1	Existential Identity and Self-Choice	128
6.2	Existential Communication	133
6.3	Restoring the Community to the Difficulty of Beginnings	140
7	The Ideal of Communicating Community	151
7.1	An Existential Mode of the Individual and Community	153
7.2	An Existential Mode of Justice and Love	173
8	Identity and Existential Revolution	187
8.1	Havel on Identity Crises and the Present Age	189
8.2	Havel's Nonpolitical Politics	196
9	Self-Reading and Authoring	203
9.1	Kierkegaard: Authorship and Authoring	203
9.2	Havel and Authoring in Deliberative Democracy	224
10	Critical Theory and Existential Philosophy	229
10.1	Habermas and Jaspers: Reading the Situations of the Present Age	230
10.2	Kierkegaard's Critical Theory of the Present Age	234
10.3	Havel's Existential Politics in the Present Age	246
10.4	A Permanent Democratic and Existential Revolution?	253
	Appendix A. Habermas's Reading of Kierkegaard: Notes from a Conversation	259
	Appendix B. Abbreviations and Bibliography for the Primary Works Cited in Notes	265
	Notes	272
	Bibliography of Secondary Works	307
	Index	321