On the World and Ourselves (eBook)

Zygmunt Bauman, Stanislaw Obirek (Autoren)

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2015
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9780745687131 (ISBN)

Infos

Unde malum from where does evil come? That is the question that has plagued humankind ever since Eve, seduced by the serpent, tempted Adam to taste the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Throughout history the awareness of good and evil has always been linked to the awareness of choice and to the freedom and responsibility to choose this is what makes us human. But the responsibility to choose is a burden that weighs heavily on our shoulders, and the temptation to hand this over to someone else be they a demagogue or a scientist who claims to trace everything back to our genes is a tempting illusion, like the paradise in which humans have at last been relieved of the moral responsibility for their actions.
In the second series of their conversations Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek reflect on the life challenges confronted by the denizens of the fragmented, individualized society of consumers and the form taken in such a society by the fundamental aspects of the human condition - such as human responsibility for the choice between good and evil, self-formation and self-assertion, the need for recognition or the call to empathy, mutual respect, human dignity and tolerance.

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. His books have become international bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Stanislaw Obirek is a former Jesuit and priest, and is now Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Warsaw.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Title page 5
Copyright page 6
Contents 7
Preface 9
1: Reveries of Solitary Walkers 13
2: Tangled Identities 75
3: Hic et Nunc 125
Instead of a Conclusion 191
Notes 199
1 Reveries of Solitary Walkers 199
2 Tangled Identities 200
3 Hic et Nunc 201
Instead of a Conclusion 203
Index 205
EULA 215

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Gesellschaftstheorie • Kultur • Religion • Religion & Culture • Religion & Theology • religion, sociology, selfhood, the self. society • Religionswissenschaft • Religion u. Kultur • Religion u. Theologie • Religious Studies • Social Theory • Sociology • Soziologie
• ISBN-13: 9780745687131 / 9780745687131