"The state has become an organizational system that increasingly intervenes in the lifeworld."

"The task of critical theory is to reconstruct the conditions for possible emancipation."

"The European Union is a post-democratic construct, a technocratic monster that lacks democratic legitimacy."

"The concept of 'human rights' is a universalizable moral intuition."

"The challenge of postmodernism is to rethink the project of modernity, not to abandon it."