InhaltsangabeIntroduction: Towards a Theory of Human Secrecy and Unfathomableness, or Exposing Elusive Forms of Evil One: From the Devil to the Frighteningly Normal and Sane People Two: The Crisis of Politics and the Search for a Language of Sensitivity Three: Between Fear and Indifference: The Loss of Sensitivity Four: Consuming University: The New Sense of Meaninglessness and the Loss of Criteria Five: The Decline of the West Revisited

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. LEONIDAS DONSKIS is a member of the European parliament, professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, and author of over thirty books.