The Lure of Technocracy
by jürgen habermas
translated by ciaran cronin
polity, 200 pages, $22.95
The European project, as it is called, is marked by great promise and great peril. No less than Winston Churchill called for the reconciliation of a “spiritually great France” and a “spiritually great Germany” in a memorable address in Zurich in September 1946. Churchill foresaw a “United States of Europe” that could bring peace, prosperity, and liberty to a continent that had been ravaged by war and tyranny. He imagined Britain as a friendly onlooker of this process of European pacification and unification, wishing Europe well while remaining committed to Britain’s empire and commonwealth and to her “special relationship” with the United States.
