Postmodern Ethics

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).

• Introduction. 1. Moral Responsibilities, Ethical Rules.2. The Elusive Universality.3. The Elusive Foundations.4. The Moral Party of Two.5. Beyond the Moral Party.6. Social Spaces: Cognitive, Aesthetic, Moral.7. Private Morals, Pubic Risks.8. An Overview: In the End is the Beginning.Index.

"Bauman must be given credit for placing what Kant called the mysteries of 'moral law inside me' as the ultimate riddle of morality. His criticism of all moral theories that reduce morality to the utilitarian rational choice of social actors is convincing." Jose Casanova, New School for Social Research