Titlebook: After 1989; Morals, Revolution a Ralf Dahrendorf (Professor of Political Science) Book 1997 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Pub

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The D’Oliveira Affair: The End of an Erafore. Those who know this or that about me may well wonder what this strange bird is about who has come to Weimar today: a British Lord but clearly with a German name, a German professor who for twenty years has been in charge of universities in London and Oxford, a traveller between countries and a

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Newlands ‘Walk-Off’: Politics and Players Hitler’s barbaric onslaught on liberty and civility led through the hell of the holocaust to a European continent in ruins, in which despite everything the values so savagely attacked had prevailed. That was the challenge of 1945. Then, barely three years later, a large part of Europe was cut off f

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Must Revolutions Fail?ene of . rule. Vistas of open skies broke the low clouds of Brezhnev’s world in which sullen submission and grey misery were the order of the day. But today, a year later, all is not well. The discovery that many of the old party bureaucrats are still in place and have even managed to turn their coa

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Citizens in Search of Meaning to wonder. Has the social scientist abandoned his ways? Has he given up (in Windelband’s clumsy but useful terms) the ‘nomothetic’ for the ‘idiographic’, the general for the particular, theory for fact? A mild version of such a change has certainly come over me. To be parochial for a moment: no one

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The Good Societycontrary, a sense of good riddance spread from libraries stocked with ‘The Open Society and Its Enemies’ and ‘The God that Failed’ to the Round Tables and then the streets of Warsaw and Budapest, Leipzig and Prague. Thus she went out, surprisingly perhaps, with a bang and not with a whimper. She? On

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Prosperity, Civility and Liberty: Can We Square the Circle?ateful for. It was their survival, of course, but it was more, a new life in a free and civil country. Britain did not have ‘the best constitution ever written’ as that of Weimar Germany has been described (which Hitler tore up in one short session of the Reichstag on 23 March 1933); Britain did — a