Postmodern Ethics

Informationen zum Autor Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Socilogy at the University of Leeds. He is known worldwide for his recent work in the social theory of medernity and postmodernity, in books such as Legislators and Interpreters, Modernity and the Holocaust, and Modernity and Ambivalence. He is also the author of Thinking Sociology (Blackwell, 1990). Klappentext Zygmunt Bauman's powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen, and dealt with, in a wholly new way. Our era, he suggests, may actually represent a dawning, rather than a twilight, for ethics. Zusammenfassung Zygmunt Baumana s powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen! and dealt with! in a wholly new way. Our era! he suggests! may actually represent a dawning! rather than a twilight! for ethics.

List of contents

Introduction.
1. Moral Responsibilities, Ethical Rules.

2. The Elusive Universality.

3. The Elusive Foundations.

4. The Moral Party of Two.

5. Beyond the Moral Party.

6. Social Spaces: Cognitive, Aesthetic, Moral.

7. Private Morals, Pubic Risks.

8. An Overview: In the End is the Beginning.

Index.

Report

"Bauman must be given credit for placing what Kant called the mysteries of moral law inside me as the ultimate riddle of morality. His criticism of all moral theories that reduce morality to the utilitarian rational choice of social actors is convincing." Jose Casanova, New School for Social Research

Product details

• Authors: Bauman, Z Bauman, Zygmunt Bauman, Zygmunt (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) Bauman
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.1993
• EAN: 9780631186939
• ISBN: 978-0-631-18693-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues & debates, Ethical issues and debates