Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Semantics, Notions and Narratives of Societal Crisis

Chapter One: What Time Frame Makes Sense for Thinking about Crises?

Chapter Two: The Stakes of Crisis

Part II: Weimar and the Interwar Period Ideologies of Antimodernism and Liberalism

Chapter Three: The Crisis of Modernity—Modernity as Crisis

Chapter Four: European Legitimacy Crises—Weimar and Today

Chapter Five: Crisis and the Consumer

Part III: The Causes of Crises from Corporatism to Governance

Chapter Six: The Constitutionalization of Labour Law and the Crisis of National Democracy

Chapter Seven: Conflict and the Crisis in Labour Law

Chapter Eight: From the Crisis of Corporatism to the Crisis of Governance

Part IV: The Euro and the Crisis of Law and Democracy

Chapter Nine: What Is Left of the European Economic Constitution II?

Chapter Ten: Reflections on Europe’s ‘Rule of Law Crises’

Chapter Eleven: Democracy under Siege

Part V: The Consequences of Crises and the Future of Europe

Chapter Twelve: Crises and Extralegality from Above and from Below

Chapter Thirteen: ‘We Could Go Down the Road of Lebanon’

Chapter Fourteen: Conclusions and Perspectives

Index

List of Contributors