Table of Contents

Preface

1. CRISIS OF THE STATE
1a. A definition of crisis
1b. A statism without a State
1c. State and nation
1d. Hobbes and the Leviathan

2. MODERNITY IN CRISIS
2a. The promises withdrawn
2b. Leaving modernity
2c. Through postmodernity
2d. Deconstruction and denial
2e. The end of history?

3. DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS
3a. Ethics of progress and democracy
3b. An excess of democracy?
3c. Postdemocracy
3d. For a new global order

About the Author

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. His many books have become international bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages. CARLO BORDONI is a scholar, essayist and journalist, specialising in the sociology of culture. He has taught sociology at the Universities of Pisa and Florence, the Oriental Institute in Naples and at the academy of fine arts in Carrarra.