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Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? / Zygmunt Bauman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture SeriesPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674033948
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174 22
LOC classification:
  • HC79.C6 B353 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction Threats or Chances? -- Chapter One. What Chance of Ethics in the Globalized World of Consumers? -- Chapter Two. Categorial Murder, or the Legacy of the Twentieth Century and How to Remember It -- Chapter Three. Freedom in the Liquid-Modern Era -- Chapter Four. Hurried Life, or Liquid-Modern Challenges to Education -- Chapter Five. Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire, or the Arts between Administration and the Markets -- Chapter Six. Making the Planet Hospitable to Europe -- Notes -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction Threats or Chances? -- Chapter One. What Chance of Ethics in the Globalized World of Consumers? -- Chapter Two. Categorial Murder, or the Legacy of the Twentieth Century and How to Remember It -- Chapter Three. Freedom in the Liquid-Modern Era -- Chapter Four. Hurried Life, or Liquid-Modern Challenges to Education -- Chapter Five. Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire, or the Arts between Administration and the Markets -- Chapter Six. Making the Planet Hospitable to Europe -- Notes -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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