THEMES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Titles in this series
Akbar Ahmed, Islam under Siege
Zygmunt Bauman, Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World
Zygmunt Bauman, Europe: An Unfinished Adventure
Zygmunt Bauman, Globalization: The Human Consequences
Zygmunt Bauman, Identity: Conversations with Benedetto Vecchi
Norberto Bobbio, Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction
Alex Callinicos, Equality
Diane Coyle, Governing the World Economy
David Crystal, The Language Revolution
Andrew Gamble, Politics and Fate
Paul Hirst, War and Power in the 21st Century
Bill Jordan and Franck Du¨vell, Migration: The Boundaries of Equality and Justice
David Lyon, Surveillance after September 11
James Mayall, World Politics: Progress and its Limits
Ray Pahl, On Friendship
Christian Reus-Smith, American Power and World Order
Shaun Riordan, The New Diplomacy
An Unfinished Adventure
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
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Acknowledgements
1 An Adventure called ‘Europe’
2 In the Empire’s Shadow
3 From Social State to Security State
4 Towards a World Hospitable to Europe
Notes
Index
I am grateful to Giuseppe Laterza and John Thompson for prevailing on me to develop a one-off text prepared for a lecture in Leyden into a wider survey of the current prospects of Europe struggling for unity, reason and ethical conscience in the increasingly fragmented world of passions and ethical confusion. It is thanks to them that I dared to take up the task, though flaws in its fulfilment are solely my responsibility.
My thanks go also, once more, to my editor Ann Bone, whose infinite patience proved to be in this case particularly precious due to the subject-matter that mutated faster than the writing managed to proceed …