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Moral blindness : the loss of sensitivity in liquid modernity / Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indifferentism (Religion).
- Apathy.
- Social ethics.
- Adiaphora.
- Physical Description:
- 218 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Loss of sensitivity in liquid modernity.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester : Polity Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one's ethical gaze. Evil and moral blindness lurk in what we take as normality and in the triviality and banality of everyday life, and not just in the abnormal and exceptional cases. The distinctive kind of moral blindness that characterizes our societies...
- Contents:
- 1 From the Devil to Frighteningly Normal and Sane People 17
- 2 The Crisis of Politics and the Search for a Language of Sensitivity 50
- 3 Between Fear and Indifference: The Loss of Sensitivity 94
- 4 Consuming University: The New Sense of Meaninglessness and the Loss of Criteria 131
- 5 Rethinking The Decline of the West 168.
- ISBN:
- 9780745662756
- 0745662757
- 9780745662749
- 0745662749
- OCLC:
- 833047291
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