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Book Reviews 73 Zygmunt Bauman, Europe Unfinished Adventure, Wydawnictwo Literac- kie, Krako´w 2005. Never before has this very planet needed rowdy and willing do adventures Europe. Europe that is capable of looking beyond its own borders. Europe that is critical about its narrow- mindedness of points of view and megalomania. Europe that is dreaming of overcoming its own condition as well as the condition of the rest of the world. Europe that is enriched by the sense of duty of global mission. Zygmunt Bauman In his latest book Zygmunt Bauman undertakes a trial of considering Europe in the context of its internal abilities and conditions and external circumstances as to transform it from a present position of a global payer to a global player. Bauman regards Europe as a process which is determined by seeking for the endless; as a challenge for Europe is a mission, a project to be created and realized; finally as a title adventure for the essence of Europe is ‘‘constantly unsurpassable for the existing European reality’’. Although he shares the common opinion concerning the difficulties in the matter of defining Europe, what he describes as ‘‘solving the insoluble’’, he consequently and undoubtedly puts forward the opinion that European civilization is characterized by incessant, always imperfect, however unce- asingly aiming at perfection process of transforming the world. This is a very source as well as substantiated explanation of the European global mission because every ‘‘adventure