The collection, published in the publishing house "Zurkamp" in 1999, contains the latest and fundamental studies on political theory, which the author conducted, independently developing his theory of communication, as well as in collaboration with his like-minded people and students, at academic seminars and in open discussions. The main topic of research has a more practical, applied political meaning, although it receives a comprehensive theoretical justification from the standpoint of hermeneutic sociology and historical political science. Extremely relevant issues are interpreted from the organic context of all the previous theoretical research of Habermas, the main task of whose scientific activity has always been to find ways to preserve the rational beginning of Western civilization, the possibilities of dialogue and mutual understanding between different and initially irreducible cultural and historical entities, a rational understanding of the complex world political process based on the history of the realities and ideas operating in it.