Postmodern Ethics

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By Zygmunt Bauman

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iPostmodern Ethics by Zygmunt Bauman explores the complex landscape of ethics in the contemporary, fragmented postmodern world. The book challenges traditional ethical frameworks, suggesting that in a world without absolute truths, ethics must be anchored in personal responsibility and the recognition of others' humanity. Bauman engages with philosophical concepts and analyses how humans navigate moral decisions in a fluid society.
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This book may appeal to you if you are interested in exploring how ethical considerations evolve in a modern context where traditional moral frameworks have fragmented. With insightful analysis, Bauman offers a compelling look at how individuals can navigate moral complexities in a world that challenges conventional notions of right and wrong.

Postmodern Ethics

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.

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Postmodern Ethics by Zygmunt Bauman is praised for exploring the complexities of morality, highlighting the enigmatic nature of what Kant described as the "moral law inside me." Bauman effectively criticises moral theories that simplify morality to utilitarian decisions made by social actors, offering a compelling critique of such approaches.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780631186939

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 October 1993

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 399g

Pages: 272

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Zygmunt Bauman

About the Author

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).

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