Bauman Collateral Damage

Social Inequalities in a Global Age
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-3791-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

The term 'collateral damage' has recently been added to thevocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintendedconsequences of armed interventions, consequences that areunplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in humanand personal terms. But collateral damage is not unique to theworld of armed intervention - it is also one of the most salientand striking dimensions of contemporary social inequality. Theinflammable mixture of growing social inequality and the risingvolume of human suffering marginalized as 'collateral' isbecoming one of most cataclysmic problems of our time.
For the political class, poverty is commonly seen as a problemof law and order - a matter of how to deal with individuals, suchas unemployed youths, who fall foul of the law. But treatingpoverty as a criminal problem obscures the social roots ofinequality, which lie in the combination of a consumerist lifephilosophy propagated and instilled by a consumer-oriented economy,on the one hand, and the rapid shrinking of life chances availableto the poor, on the other. In our contemporary, liquid-modernworld, the poor are the collateral damage of a profit-driven,consumer-oriented society - 'aliens inside' who are deprivedof the rights enjoyed by other members of the social order.
In this new book Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original andinfluential social thinkers of our time - examines the selectiveaffinity between the growth of social inequality and the rise inthe volume of 'collateral damage' and considers itsimplications and its costs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bauman, Zygmunt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Collateral damage of social inequality 1
1 From the agora to the marketplace 10
2 Requiem for communism 27
3 The fate of social inequality in liquid modern times 40
4 Strangers are dangers . . . Are they indeed? 52
5 Consumerism and morality 72
6 Privacy, secrecy, intimacy, human bonds - and othercollateral casualties of liquid modernity 83
7 Luck and the individualization of remedies 94
8 Seeking in modern Athens an answer to the ancient Jerusalemquestion 104
9 A natural history of evil 128
10 Wir arme Leut' . . . 150
11 Sociology: whence and whither? 160
Notes 173
Index 180

Über Autor(innen)

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK.He is the author of many books that have become internationalbestsellers and have been translated into more than thirtylanguages, including 44 Letters on the Liquid Modern World,Liquid Times, The Art of Life and Living onBorrowed Time.