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The volume „Futurology—The challenges of the XXI century” is an important element of the Recifer Eurofutures publication Series developed by FISB-NLU in Nowy Sącz. The volume is presenting and analyzing a rich panorama of problems and approaches related to the historical experiences of the XX century and the prospective experiences of the XXI century. This is a pluralistic volume in substantial and methodological dimensions opening the perspectives for different value judgments in the interpretation of the past and in the interpretation of the enigma of the future. Some of these value judgments may be seen as controversial especially in the evaluation of the role of neoliberalism as the dominant ideology of the last decades of the XX century.

There is no doubt however, that the grand debate related to the experiences of the XX century and the prospects for the XXI century, should be a controversial debate creating an intellectual climate for the new futurology able to survive and grow in the dramatic conditions of the XXI century. The title and context of the volume—“Futurology—the challenges of the XXI century” can be seen as an inducement for creative reflexion related to the new shape of futurology as an substantial and methodological instrument useful in the interpretation of the grand interactive field linking the past, the present and the future. Never in the history of human mind the enigma of the future was more dramatic than to day. If the volume will even in a very modest scale help us to face these enigma then the mission of the volume will be accomplished.

Let us hope that the context of the volume can be seen as a modest contribution to the new grand programme of the Club of Rome—A New path for World Development.

Spis treści:

• Preface — KRZYSZTOF PAWŁOWSKI 
• Editorial Intoduction — ANTONI KUKLIŃKI, KRZYSZTOF PAWŁOWSKI

• RICHARD R. ERNST: Goals of Higher Education: Knowledge and Critical Foresight, Leading
  to Societal Responsibility
• GILBERT FAYL, ULRIC FAYL V. HENTALLER: The Broader Context of EU Research Policy
• ANDRZEJ P. WIERZBICKI, AKIO KAMEOKA, YOSHITERU NAKAMORI: The New Era of Knowledge
  Civilization and Its Episteme
• LESZEK KUŹNICKI: Cognitive and civilizational problems of contemporary science
• IDA KURCZ: How to communicate in the global world. The case of global language
• KRYSTYNA SKARŻYŃSKA: National attachment and globalization processes
• PAUL DREWE: What Future for the Nation State or—rather—what Nation State for the
  Future?
• ANNA GĄSIOR-NIEMIEC, GEORG GLASZE, ROBERT PÜTZ: In/Securitization of Society Some
  Challenges and Options for the Future

• PENTTI MALASKA, KARIN HOLSTIUS: Modern futures approach and human security ethos
• ZDZISŁAW SADOWSKI: Moot issues of sustained development
• WŁADYSŁAW ŚWITALSKI: Future oriented studies (economic growth: issues, methodology,
  models)
• JEAN-MARIE ROUSSEAU: ‘Movinnovation’ as a driving force of the 21st century’s smart
  territories
• GERD SCHIENSTOCK: Innovation system and foresight
• ROMAN GALAR: On the “Black Swan” Inspired Attitudes toward Future
• CHRISTIAN BERG: Global Networks—Notes on their History and their Effects

• WOLFGANG MICHALSKI: Responding to the Challenges of 21st Century Transitions: In Search
  of a Holistic, Coherent and Policy-oriented Approach
• PAWEŁ OPALA, KRZYSZTOF RYBIŃSKI: Gordian Knots of the 21st Century
• MICHAŁ PENKALA: The Enigma of China
• KRZYSZTOF RYBIŃSKI: A Day in the Life of Homo Sapiens Globalus

• WITOLD M. ORŁOWSKI: The Puzzles of Convergence: Europe’s economic history in 20th century
• STANISŁAW M. SZUKALSKI: Turning points in the European economic development in the
  perspective of the year 2050
• ANTONI KUKLIŃSKI: The Future of Europe. A modest contribution to the European debate
• KRZYSZTOF PORWIT: Transcendental factors in futurology of the 21st Century
• JAN LAMBOOY: Europe as an adaptive complex institutional system
• HANS VAN ZON: The ‘European Renaissance’ scenario some problems in assessing Europe’s
  futures
• MAROSÁN GYÖRGY: The Scenarios for Europe
• PETER FLEISSNER: At the Turning Point. A Personal Comment from the Year 2025
• TOMASZ ZARYCKI: The Lisbon Agenda as a New Khrushchev Call. On the Relevance of the
  Soviet Experience of Modernization for the European Union
• GILBERT FAYL, ULRIC FAYL VON HENTALLER: More realism—fewer illusions

• Post Scriptum — ANTONI KUKLIŃSKI 381
• The Triple Mission of the volume “Futurology—the challenges of the XXI century” —
• ANTONI KUKLIÑSKI 383
• The Authors of the Volume 386