Postmodern Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780631186939 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 262 str.

Zygmunt Bauman

Opis

In this sequel to Modernity and the Holocaust and Legislators and Interpreters, Zygmunt Bauman provides a philosophical and sociological investigation of the postmodern perspective on morality. Going beyond fashionable and simplistic reports of the end of ethics, he argues that the postmodern era has in fact opened up the possiblity of a radically new understanding of the ethical.

Recenzje

"Bauman must be given credit for placing what Kant called the mysteries of ′moral law inside me′ as the ultimate riddle of morality. His criticism of all moral theories that reduce morality to the utilitarian rational choice of social actors is convincing." Jose Casanova, New School for Social Research

Spis treści

Introduction.

1. Moral Responsibilities, Ethical Rules.

2. The Elusive Universality.

3. The Elusive Foundations.

4. The Moral Party of Two.

5. Beyond the Moral Party.

6. Social Spaces: Cognitive, Aesthetic, Moral.

7. Private Morals, Pubic Risks.

8. An Overview: In the End is the Beginning.

Index.

O autorze

Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Socilogy at the University of Leeds. He is known worldwide for his recent work in the social theory of medernity and postmodernity, in books such as Legislators and Interpreters, Modernity and the Holocaust, and Modernity and Ambivalence. He is also the author of Thinking Sociology (Blackwell, 1990).

Blurb

Zygmunt Bauman′s powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen, and dealt with, in a wholly new way. Our era, he suggests, may actually represent a dawning, rather than a twilight, for ethics.