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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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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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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
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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