Life in Fragments: essays in postmodern Morality/ (Record no. 187506)
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International Standard Book Number | 9780631192671 |
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Transcribing agency | CUS |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 170 |
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Personal name | Bauman, Zygmunt |
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Title | Life in Fragments: essays in postmodern Morality/ |
Statement of responsibility, etc. | Zygmunt Bauman |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | UK: |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Blackwell, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1998. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 293 p. |
Other physical details | PB |
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
Formatted contents note | Introduction: In Search of Postmodern Reason<br/>1 Morality without Ethics<br/>Society: the operation cover-up • Facing the unfaceable<br/>• Weaving the veil • The veil pierced • The veil torn up<br/>• Morality uncovered • Ethical laivs, moral standards<br/>2 Forms of Togetherness<br/>Being-aside, heing-with, being-for • Convention and<br/>commitment • The unbearable uncertainty of being-for<br/>• The good is in the future<br/>3 Broken Lives, Broken Strategies<br/>Breaking out, into prison • Acceleration and its discontents:<br/>'quality of life' • Acceleration and its discontents: 'identity'<br/>• Modern life as pilgrimage • The world inhospitable to<br/>pilgrims • The pilgrim's successors • What chance of<br/>morality? What chance of polity?<br/>4 A Catalogue of Postmodern Fears<br/>Fears of Panopticon • From purveyors of goods to<br/>sensations-gatherers • From health to fitness • The body<br/>under siege • From handling to tasting<br/>5 The Stranger Revisited - and Revisiting<br/>Tivo strategies of living with strangers • The stranger, as<br/>seen by the flaneur • The stranger ante portas • The<br/>stranger, Janus-faced<br/>6 Violence, Postmodern<br/>The drifting frontier • The ways and means of separating<br/>deeds and morals • Adiaphorization, the postmodern version<br/>• Violence, do-it-yourself style • An inconclusive conclusion<br/>1 Tribal Moralities<br/>7.1 The Body as Task<br/>Guarding the frontiers of civilization • Border control privatized<br/>7.2 Racism, Anti-racism and Moral Progress<br/>The administration of strangers • Moral progress? • The new<br/>world disorder, or respacing the world • Insecurity and cruelty<br/>7.3 A Century of Camps?<br/>Modernizing cruelty<br/>7.4 'Antisemitism' Reassessed<br/>Jews are unlike the others • Jews mean the impossibility of<br/>order • Changing times, changing places<br/>8 Morality and Politics<br/>8.1 Intellectuals in the Postmodern World<br/>Modern origins of the intellectuals • The 'intelligentsia of the<br/>civilizational periphery * Estrangement and engagement • The<br/>social dislocation of intellectuals • Towards a recomposition?<br/>8.2 Europe of Nations, Europe of Tribes<br/>8.3 An Epilogue: Threats and Chances, Old and<br/>New<br/>The story so far and the beginning of a new story •<br/>The chances of moral togetherness • The new community? •<br/>Between hope and despair • New ethics in search of new<br/>politics • Can we do it? Will we do it? |
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Koha item type | General Books |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Koha item type |
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Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 29/08/2016 | 170 BAU/L | P42540 | 14/07/2018 | 14/07/2018 | General Books |