
Jürgen Habermas: "Democracy in Europe" (2014)
Holberg Prize Talks
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National Solidarity Is a Form of Political Integration
No nation if we understand the word in the modern sense, and always without a political mobilization of the masses. We became superimposed on older dynastic and religious ties as well as on local forms of life and royalties. To political level of civic integration here acquires an entirely independent way compared to the older informal layers of social character integration. Unlike the organic solidarity among neighbors in a village or the loyalty to a territory in the Lord which rests on existing forms of social integration,. National consciousness is the result and was the result of an organized form of political integration, an organized form.
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