The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 effectively ended the
division of Europe into East and West, and the features of our
world that have resulted bear little resemblance to those of the
forty years that preceded the Wall's fall. The rise of a new Europe
prompts many questions, most of which remain to be answered. What
does it all mean? Where is it going to lead? Are we witnessing the
conclusion of an era without seeing anything to replace an old and
admittedly dismal way of life? What will a market economy do to the
social texture of various countries of Central Europe? Will it not
make some rich while many will become poorer than ever? How can the
rule of law be brought about?
In this incisive and lucid book, Ralf Dahrendorf, one of
Europe's most distinguished scholars, ponders these and other
equally vexing questions. He regards what has happened in East
Central Europe as a victory for neither of the social systems that
once opposed each other across the Iron Curtain. Rather, he views
these events as a vote for an open society over a closed society.
The continuing conundrum, he argues, which will plague peoples
everywhere, will be how to balance the need for economic growth
with the desire for social justice while building authentic and
enduring democratic institutions.
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, which includes a new
introduction from the author, is a humane, skeptical, and
anti-utopian work, a manifesto for a radical liberalism in which
the social entitlements of citizenship are as important a condition
of progress as the opportunities for choice. A fascinating study of
change and geopolitics in the modern world, Reflections points the
way towards a new politics for the twenty-first century. Ralf
Dahrendorf, born in Hamburg, Germany in 1929, is a member of
Britain's House of Lords. He was professor of sociology at Hamburg,
T3bingen and Konstanz from 1957 to 1968, and in 1974 moved to
Britain. He has been the director of the London School of
Economics, warden of St. Antony's College, and pro vice-chancellor
of the University of Oxford. He is the author of numerous books,
including The Modern Social Conflict and After 1989: Morals,
Revolution and Civil Society.
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