• Preface - OPENING WALLS - Must Revolutions Fail? - The Open Society and its Fears - Citizens in Search of Meaning - THE GOOD SOCIETY - The Good Society - Morality, Institutions and Civil Society - Why Excellence Matters - Prosperity, Civility and Liberty. Can We Square the Circle? - UNDERSTANDING CHANGE - The Democratic Revolution, or the Uses of the Science of Politics - Who Makes History? On the Entanglements of Economics and Politics - Whither Social Sciences? - The Public Responsibility of Intellectuals - BRITAIN, GERMANY AND EUROPE - Berlin for Example: From Zero Hour to Civil Society - Democracy in Germany: An Anglo-German Perspective - Europe, Unity and Diversity - From Europe to Europe. A Story of Hope, Trial and Error - Acknowledgements - Index

'1989 was as important a date as 1945; it was a watershed.' - Lord Dahrendorf 'Dahrendorf has been a champion of Europe for a long time...making a union is not easy, unless, that is, we have a few dozen people like Dahrendorf who are rooted in Europe rather than in particular localities thereof. But that is perhaps asking too much. Even one Dahrendorf is quite a lot to have and enjoy.' - Lord Desai, Times Higher Education Supplement