InhaltsangabePreface. I. Portraits. 1. ".And to define America, her athletic Democracy." In Memory of Richard Rorty. 2. How to Answer the Ethical Question: Derrida and Religion. 3. Ronald Dworkin - A Maverick among Legal Scholars. II. Europe, Europe. 4. An Avantgardistic Intuition for Relevances: The Role of the Intellectual and European Question. 5. What is Meant by a "Post-secular Society"? A Discussion on Islam in Europe. 6. European Politics at an Impasse: A Plea for a Policy of Graduated Integration. 7. The Constitutionalization of International Law and the Problems of Legitimating a Constitution for World Society. III. On Reason in the Public Sphere. 8. Media, Markets and Consumers: The Quality Press as the Backbone of the Public Sphere. 9. Political Communication in Media Society - Does Democracy still have an epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research.