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.

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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 Unfathomability, or
Exposing Elusive Forms of Evil 1
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