Does ethics have a chance in a world of consumers? / Zygmunt Bauman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017.

Series:

Vienna lecture series.

Institute for Human Sciences Vienna lecture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Globalization--Moral and ethical aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction Threats or Chances?

Chapter One. What Chance of Ethics in the Globalized World of Consumers?

Chapter Two. Categorial Murder, or the Legacy of the Twentieth Century and How to Remember It

Chapter Three. Freedom in the Liquid-Modern Era

Chapter Four. Hurried Life, or Liquid-Modern Challenges to Education

Chapter Five. Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire, or the Arts between Administration and the Markets

Chapter Six. Making the Planet Hospitable to Europe

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-268) and index.

ISBN:

9780674261921

0674261925

9780674020580

0674020588

9780674033948

0674033949

OCLC:

443273329