Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Jan-Werner Mller argues for a form of political belonging centered on universalist norms, adapted for specific constitutional cultures. At the same time, he presents a novel approach to thinking about political belonging and the preconditions of democratic legitimacy beyond the nation-state. The book takes the development of the European Union as a case study, but its lessons apply also to the United States and other parts of the world. Mller's essay starts with an engaging historical account of the origins and spread of the concept of constitutional patriotism-the idea that political attachment ought to center on the norms and values of a liberal democratic constitution rather than a national culture or the "global human community." In a more analytical part, he then proposes a critical conception of citizenship that makes room for dissent and civil disobedience while taking seriously a polity's need for stability over time. Mller's theory of constitutional patriotism responds to the challenges of the de facto multiculturalism of today's states--with a number of concrete policy implications about immigration and the preconditions for citizenship clearly spelled out. And it asks what civic empowerment could mean in a globalizing world.

揚-維爾納·米勒（Jan-Werner Müller） 美國普林斯頓大學政治係教授，英國牛津大學全靈學院院士，紐約大學雷馬剋研究所高級訪問院士，並在哈佛大學歐洲研究中心以院士身份進行博士後研究，是歐洲年輕一代思想傢中影響較大也較為活躍的翹楚人物。著有《另一個國度：德國知識分子、兩德統一及民族認同》、《危險的心靈：戰後歐洲思潮中的卡爾·施米特》，編有《戰後歐洲的記憶和權力：過去的現在性研究》和《1945年以來的德國意識形態：聯邦德國文化和政治思想研究》等。

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鄧曉菁 北京外國語大學文學學士，北京大學法學碩士，德國法蘭剋福大學法學碩士。譯有《當知識分子遇到政治》、《危險的心靈：戰後歐洲思潮中的卡爾·施米特》和《偶然》。現供職於外研社。