Cover -- Contents -- Note to the Reader -- Jiří Přibáň's Socratic Warnings (Petr Pithart) -- 1 Czechs in Europe -- The Czech Question in Post-national Society -- The Poverty of Czech Euroscepticism -- The Czech Presidency of the EU -- European Borders -- Endless Europe -- EU - War Child, Victim of Peace? -- The Union Today Doesn't Know What it is, Hence its Crisis -- Greece - State of Emergency -- Brrr-exit -- 2 Democratic Constitutionalism -- The Cold Lies of the State -- Election Carnival -- Waiting for a Leader? -- Depoliticisation - A Czech Dream of Peace and Tranquillity -- The Disintegration of the Public Sphere -- Where Did the People Go? -- 3 Parliamentary Democracy -- Parliamentarianism -- Elections -- The Age of Political Uncertainty -- The Defence of Party Politics -- 4 Liberty and Her People -- Militant Democracy -- Protest -- Hunger Strike -- Social Citizenship -- People, or Population? -- 5 Political Thought in a Global Society -- The Crisis and its Critism -- Intellectuals -- For Others Rights, for Himself Duties -- Sunken Islands of Positive Deviance? -- Democracy is a Process of Permanent Self-correction -- Czeching Wales