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* Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time. * This new book focuses on social inequality.

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"Catalogues the almost irreparable damage and corruption visited on the fabric of humanity and its collective values of solidarity, as well as shared interests, by the practices of modern capitalism."
Morning Star

"A wise old man, raging against the rise of new evils and yet retaining a passion for a redemptive and transformative mission for sociology and its concerns, is something laudable."
Times Higher Education



Table of Contents

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 other collateral casualties of liquid modernity 83

7 Luck and the individualization of remedies 94

8 Seeking in modern Athens an answer to the ancient Jerusalem question 104

9 A natural history of evil 128

10 Wir arme Leut' . . . 150

11 Sociology: whence and whither? 160

Notes 173

Index 180

Collateral Damage Social Inequalities in a

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 6 May 2011
      ISBN-13 9780745652948
      978-0745652948
      ISBN-10 0745652948
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      Poverty and precarity Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      * Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time. * This new book focuses on social inequality.

      Trade Review
      "Catalogues the almost irreparable damage and corruption visited on the fabric of humanity and its collective values of solidarity, as well as shared interests, by the practices of modern capitalism."
      Morning Star

      "A wise old man, raging against the rise of new evils and yet retaining a passion for a redemptive and transformative mission for sociology and its concerns, is something laudable."
      Times Higher Education



      Table of Contents

      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 other collateral casualties of liquid modernity 83

      7 Luck and the individualization of remedies 94

      8 Seeking in modern Athens an answer to the ancient Jerusalem question 104

      9 A natural history of evil 128

      10 Wir arme Leut' . . . 150

      11 Sociology: whence and whither? 160

      Notes 173

      Index 180

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