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Informationen zum Autor Keith Tester is Professor of Social Theory at the University of Portsmouth. Author of The Inhuman Condition (Routledge, 1995); The Life and Times of Postmodernity (Routledge, 1993); Civil Society (Routledge, 1992); Two Sovereigns: Social Contradictions of European Modernity (Routledge, 1992); Animals and Society (Routledge, 1991), this book was winner of the Philip Abrams Prize; and editor of The Flaneur (Routledge, 1994). Klappentext Increasingly in the West, horror is experienced only through television and cinema screens. Tester looks at the moral possibilities and implications of this, and also addresses the pressing concern of whether or not this is a time of moral decay. He uses a wide range of literature to explore these questions and develops his account around debates raised by Arendt, Simmel, Riesman and Bauman. Zusammenfassung Increasingly in the West! horror is experienced only through television and cinema screens. Tester looks at the moral possibilities and implications of this! and also addresses the pressing concern of whether or not this is a time of moral decay. He uses a wide range of literature to explore these questions and develops his account around debates raised by Arendt! Simmel! Riesman and Bauman. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Indifference Duty Guilt Virtue Conclusion
