Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?

by Zygmunt Bauman

Overview

Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. In an era of routine travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs that aid our thinking about the world have become an obstacle. He challenges members of the “knowledge class” to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674033948
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2009
Series:	Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	352 KB

About the Author

Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds, and the author of many books.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Threats or Chances?     1
What Chance of Ethics in the Globalized World of Consumers?     31
Categorial Murder, or the Legacy of the Twentieth Century and How to Remember It     78
Freedom in the Liquid-Modern Era     110
Hurried Life, or Liquid-Modern Challenges to Education     144
Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire, or the Arts between Administration and the Markets     194
Making the Planet Hospitable to Europe     225
Notes     259
Index     269

What People are Saying About This

This thoughtful and elegant little book by one of the world's most humble but distinguished intellectuals conveys a sense that the wisdom of a lifetime is being distilled here in a pithy but above all in a usable form.

Ron Eyerman

Zygmunt Bauman's voice is as exemplary as it is powerful. He writes not only in Max Weber's spirit, but also in that of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, as well as Hannah Arendt and Norbert Elias. This is a very important collection by one of the leading thinkers of our time. --(Ron Eyerman, Yale University)

Paul Gilroy

This thoughtful and elegant little book by one of the world's most humble but distinguished intellectuals conveys a sense that the wisdom of a lifetime is being distilled here in a pithy but above all in a usable form. --(Paul Gilroy, London School of Economics)

Editorial Reviews

Zygmunt Bauman's voice is as exemplary as it is powerful. He writes not only in Max Weber's spirit, but also in that of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, as well as Hannah Arendt and Norbert Elias. This is a very important collection by one of the leading thinkers of our time.

Ron Eyerman

This thoughtful and elegant little book by one of the world's most humble but distinguished intellectuals conveys a sense that the wisdom of a lifetime is being distilled here in a pithy but above all in a usable form.

Paul Gilroy