TY - BOOK AU - Bauman,Zygmunt TI - Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? T2 - Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series SN - 9780674033948 AV - HC79 U1 - 174 PY - 2008/// CY - Cambridge PB - Harvard University Press KW - Consumption (Economics)-Moral and ethical aspects KW - Globalization-Moral and ethical aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3300482 ER -