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Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674033948
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?DDC classification:
  • 174
LOC classification:
  • HC79
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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