Jürgen Habermas on the Crisis of European Union and the Concept of Solidarity (2011–2013)

Abstract

The article is concentrated upon the theoretical as well the practical problems, which in
connection with the recent (2011–2013) history of EU, with its crisis, were and are raised,
investigated by J. Habermas. The author of his article is combining the personal impressions and
the theoretical analysis, connected with the lectures and publications of German social philosopher
in order to demonstrate how the philosophical thought develops its ideas and concepts (here with
accents on the philosophical content of the renewed concept of “solidarity”), which become the
answers to the challenges of contemporary civilization.