Unia Europejska – instytucja – człowiek. Dlaczego integracja może budzić lęk i strach?
European Union – Institution – Man. Why Can Integration Raise Fear and Dread?

Summary/Abstract: The terror of integration is inherent in the very process of institutionalization: it is a fear of the consequences of the loss of human subjectivity, or putting it differently, of the objectification of the citizen – a fear that bureaucracy will replace the sense of human solidarity. One can say Weber’s message about man ceasing to be the ‘‘master’’ and gradually turning into a ‘‘servant’’ is not far from becoming real, similarly as Jonas’ claim of the ‘‘urge forward’’, which however does not stop resounding in human nature. The European family today is called ‘‘an institution modeled on the state’’, and not described in terms of bonds and relations. The dread is amplified by legally sanctioned modes of coercion and violence as inseparable correlates of formal institutions of common life. The European Union as an institution in ‘‘macro’’ scale can contribute to a sense of alienation and confusion of the human being in the world of public life.

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