Contains:
Introduction: collateral damage of social inequality -- From the agora to the marketplace -- Requiem for communism -- The fate of social inequality in liquid modern times -- Strangers are dangers ... are they indeed? -- Consumerism and morality -- Privacy, secrecy, intimacy, human bonds and other collateral casualties of liquid modernity -- Luck and the individualization of remedies -- Seeking in modern Athens an answer to the ancient Jerusalem question -- A natural history of evil -- Wir arme Leut' ... -- Sociology: whence and whither?
Description:
Introduction: collateral damage of social inequality -- From the agora to the marketplace -- Requiem for communism -- The fate of social inequality in liquid modern times -- Strangers are dangers ... are they indeed? -- Consumerism and morality -- Privacy, secrecy, intimacy, human bonds and other collateral casualties of liquid modernity -- Luck and the individualization of remedies -- Seeking in modern Athens an answer to the ancient Jerusalem question -- A natural history of evil -- Wir arme Leut' ... -- Sociology: whence and whither?