Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?

Informationen zum Autor Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology! University of Leeds! and the author of many books. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Introduction: Threats or Chances? * What Chance of Ethics in the Globalized World of Consumers? * Categorial Murder! or the Legacy of the Twentieth Century and How to Remember It * Freedom in the Liquid-Modern Era * Hurried Life! or Liquid-Modern Challenges to Education * Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire! or the Arts between Administration and the Markets * Making the Planet Hospitable to Europe * Notes * Index

Product details

• Authors: Zygmunt Bauman
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 14.05.2009
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780674033511
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03351-1
• Pages: 288
• Dimensions (packing): 14 x 21 x 1.7 cm
• Series: Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna Lectures; Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series; Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; Philosophy; Ethics and moral philosophy