Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?
Bauman, Zygmunt.
Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (281 pages) - Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series . - Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Threats or Chances? -- 1. What Chance of Ethics in the Globalized World of Consumers? -- 2. Categorial Murder, or the Legacy of the Twentieth Century and How to Remember It -- 3. Freedom in the Liquid-Modern Era -- 4. Hurried Life, or Liquid-Modern Challenges to Education -- 5. Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire, or the Arts between Administration and the Markets -- 6. Making the Planet Hospitable to Europe -- Notes -- Index.
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.
9780674033948
Consumption (Economics)-Moral and ethical aspects.
Globalization-Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
HC79
174
Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (281 pages) - Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series . - Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Threats or Chances? -- 1. What Chance of Ethics in the Globalized World of Consumers? -- 2. Categorial Murder, or the Legacy of the Twentieth Century and How to Remember It -- 3. Freedom in the Liquid-Modern Era -- 4. Hurried Life, or Liquid-Modern Challenges to Education -- 5. Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire, or the Arts between Administration and the Markets -- 6. Making the Planet Hospitable to Europe -- Notes -- Index.
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.
9780674033948
Consumption (Economics)-Moral and ethical aspects.
Globalization-Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
HC79
174