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Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? by Zygmunt Bauman 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that ordinary people can understand-about problems they feel ill equipped to solve. This book is no dry treatise but is instead what Bauman calls "a report from a battlefield," part of the struggle to find new and adequate ways of thinking about the world in which we live. Rather than searching for solutions to what are perhaps the insoluble problems of the modern world, Bauman proposes that we reframe the way we think about these problems. 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. Bauman seeks to liberate us from the thinking that renders us hopeless in the face of our own domineering governments and threats from unknown forces abroad. He shows us we can give up belief in a hierarchical arrangement of states and powers. He challenges members of the "knowledge class" to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society. Gracefully, provocatively, Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. As Bauman notes, quoting Vaclav Havel, "hope is not a prognostication." It is, rather, alongside courage and will, a mundane, common weapon that is too seldom used. Notes Zygmunt Baumans voice is as exemplary as it is powerful. He writes not only in Max Webers spirit, but also in that of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, as well as Hannah Arendt and Norbert Elias. This is a very important collection by one of the leading thinkers of our time. -- Ron Eyerman, Yale University This thoughtful and elegant little book by one of the worlds most humble but distinguished intellectuals conveys a sense that the wisdom of a lifetime is being distilled here in a pithy but above all in a usable form. -- Paul Gilroy, London School of Economics Back Cover Gerard Woodwards previous collection, Householder, won him immediate recognition as a poet of immense promise; it received the Somerset Maugham Award and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. After The Deafening is the realisation of that promise, a book in which common events are enlarged under the lens of the poets powerful imagination. Each poem begins as an expedition into a familiar world, but the flowers, fruits and insects of that world take on a puzzling, almost supernatural, significance. Gerard Woodward writes the science-fiction of everyday life. Author Biography Zygmunt Bauman was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and the author of many books. Table of Contents * Introduction: Threats or Chances? * What Chance of Ethics in the Globalized World of Consumers? * Categorial Murder, or the Legacy of the Twentieth Century and How to Remember It * Freedom in the Liquid-Modern Era * Hurried Life, or Liquid-Modern Challenges to Education * Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire, or the Arts between Administration and the Markets * Making the Planet Hospitable to Europe * Notes * Index Review Zygmunt Baumans voice is as exemplary as it is powerful. He writes not only in Max Webers spirit, but also in that of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, as well as Hannah Arendt and Norbert Elias. This is a very important collection by one of the leading thinkers of our time. -- Ron Eyerman, Yale UniversityThis thoughtful and elegant little book by one of the worlds most humble but distinguished intellectuals conveys a sense that the wisdom of a lifetime is being distilled here in a pithy but above all in a usable form. -- Paul Gilroy, London School of Economics Promotional Zygmunt Baumans voice is as exemplary as it is powerful. He writes not only in Max Webers spirit, but also in that of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, as well as Hannah Arendt and Norbert Elias. This is a very important collection by one of the leading thinkers of our time. -- Ron Eyerman, Yale University This thoughtful and elegant little book by one of the worlds most humble but distinguished intellectuals conveys a sense that the wisdom of a lifetime is being distilled here in a pithy but above all in a usable form. -- Paul Gilroy, London School of Economics Review Quote Zygmunt Baumans voice is as exemplary as it is powerful. He writes not only in Max Webers spirit, but also in that of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, as well as Hannah Arendt and Norbert Elias. This is a very important collection by one of the leading thinkers of our time. Details ISBN0674033515 Author Zygmunt Bauman Short Title DOES ETHICS HAVE A CHANCE IN A Publisher Harvard University Press Language English ISBN-10 0674033515 ISBN-13 9780674033511 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 174 Year 2009 Imprint Harvard University Press Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Birth 1925 Residence ENK Affiliation Universities of Leeds and Warsaw University of Leeds, UK University of Series Number 3 UK Release Date 2009-05-01 AU Release Date 2009-05-01 NZ Release Date 2009-05-01 US Release Date 2009-05-01 Pages 288 Series Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series Publication Date 2009-05-01 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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