Moral Blindness The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity

Name: Moral Blindness The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
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ISBN: 9780745662756

ISBN-10: 0745662757

ISBN-13: 9780745662756

Edition: 2013

Authors: Zygmunt Bauman, Leonidas Donskis

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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. Evil and moral blindness lurk in what we take as normality and in the triviality and banality of everyday life, and not just in the abnormal and exceptional cases. The distinctive kind of moral blindness that characterizes our societies is brilliantly analysed by Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis through the concept of adiaphora: the placing of certain acts or categories of human beings…

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List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 3/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction: Towards a Theory of Human Secrecy and Unfathomability, or Exposing Elusive Forms of Evil



From the Devil to Frighteningly Normal and Sane People



The Crisis of Politics and the Search for a Language of Sensitivity



Between Fear and Indifference: The Loss of Sensitivity



Consuming University: The New Sense of Meaninglessness and the Loss of Criteria



Rethinking The Decline of the West