Book, Is Ethics possible in a world of consumers?, A[LS]

"This book is a report from a battlefield." With this statement, Zygmunt Bauman opens the collection that brings together six of his lectures given at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, in 2008. Ethics is the common point between each of the texts. The author suggests that a new logic be adopted that allows us to read current reality and presents a challenging attempt to capture the world in motion. Dialoguing with thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida and Norbert Elias, the sociologist reflects on the role of art in the liquid modern world; Europe's dilemma regarding foreigners; the trivialization of the idea of ​​the Holocaust; the impossibility of debating freedom due to the predominance of fear and insecurity; education and the development of an ethical attitude, in a century dominated by antagonistic forces, such as globalization and local political forces. Six texts that reflect lucid studies of contemporary society.