Zygmunt Bauman, Leonidas Donskis

Moral Blindness

The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780745662749
• ISBN-10: 0745662749
• Artikelnr.: 40449310

Autorenporträt

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN (1925-2017) was professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. His many books have become international bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages. LEONIDAS DONSKIS is a member of the European parliament, professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, and author of over thirty books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Towards a Theory of Human Secrecy and Unfathomableness, or
Exposing Elusive Forms of Evil One: From the Devil to the Frighteningly
Normal and Sane People Two: The Crisis of Politics and the Search for a
Language of Sensitivity Three: Between Fear and Indifference: The Loss of
Sensitivity Four: Consuming University: The New Sense of Meaninglessness
and the Loss of Criteria Five: The Decline of the West Revisited