Social Re-Construction and Post-National Constellation - The Formative Period of the European Project

摘要

This paper seizes to demonstrate the realities of survival that Europe experienced after World War II and the originating ideas behind the efforts made for the social and political reconstruction of the Old Continent. It strives to highlight the measures taken by the political leaders of Europe and the ideational foundation for the introduction of post-war social reconstruction, under the aegis of post-national constellation.We are aiming to highlight the fact that the interdependence between the foreword of politics and the impetus for social reconstruction was stark and not at all cleft. The undivided responsibility for the anatomical preparation of a socially reconstructed Europe and a Europe that was committed to give up power politics for good could, indeed, be interpreted in the key of post-national constellation. The nation-state proved to be a long-wearing experiment, but also an experiment that engendered an aching stenosis to inter-state cooperation.With this argument brought in scope, the idea of post- national constellation worked as a panacea, in the years preceding World War II, and was thought to bring both political and social reconstruction for the people of Europe, representing the jumping-off place for the creation of the European Union. The theoretical underpinnings of post-national constellation were coined by Jurgen Habermas much later. However, we are pledging to bind cognitive detections of post-national constellation, that existed even during the years, when the European project was concocted for the ideational reunification of Europe, to the virtual table of contents of this concept, in the manner in which it was unveiled by Jurgen Habermas.