Figures and tables Contributors Preface and acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Modernity, welfare state and Eutopia PART I: Social modernity 1 Habermas on European integration 2 Metatheory 3 Integration theory 4 Democratic theory PART II: Cultural modernity 5 Rationalisation 6 Neoconservatism 7 Cartographies of disenchantment PART III: Empirical research 8 The conceptual landscape of the Constitutional Convention Conclusion: An unfinished project? Afterword John Goff References Index