” Noting that “our imagination is paralyzed” and that “the institutionalization of procedures that provide for granting and universalizing common interests can hardly occur within the organizational framework of a global state,” Habermas led the way, rethinking the role of civil society and the public political space and elaborating plans for a “cosmopolitan democracy” proper to nonstate forms of organization.Such governance precludes exclusion; it… [read post]