Collateral Damage

Zygmunt Bauman 지음

Polity 2013년 04월 16일 출간

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책소개

The term lsquo;collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in human and personal terms. But collateral damage is not unique to the world of armed intervention - it is also one of the most salient and striking dimensions of contemporary social inequality. The inflammable mixture of growing social inequality and the rising volume of human suffering marginalized as lsquo;collateral' is becoming one of the most cataclysmic problems of our time.For the political class, poverty is commonly seen as a problem of law and order - a matter of how to deal with individuals, such as unemployed youths, who fall foul of the law. But treating poverty as a criminal problem obscures the social roots of inequality, which lie in the combination of a consumerist life philosophy propagated and instilled by a consumer-oriented economy, on the one hand, and the rapid shrinking of life chances available to the poor, on the other. In our contemporary, liquid-modern world, the poor are the collateral damage of a profit-driven, consumer-oriented society - lsquo;aliens inside' who are deprived of the rights enjoyed by other members of the social order.In this new book Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time - examines the selective affinity between the growth of social inequality and the rise in the volume of lsquo;collateral damage' and considers its implications and its costs.

목차

Introduction: Collateral damage of social inequality 11 From the agora to the marketplace 102 Requiem for communism 273 The fate of social inequality in liquid modern times 404 Strangers are dangers . . . Are they indeed? 525 Consumerism and morality 726 Privacy, secrecy, intimacy, human bonds &n- and other collateral casualties of liquid modernity 837 Luck and the individualization of remedies 948 Seeking in modern Athens an answer to the ancient Jerusalem question 1049 A natural history of evil 12810 Wir arme Leut' . . . 15011 Sociology: whence and whither? 160Notes 173Index 180

출판사 서평

"Catalogues the almost irreparable damage and corruption visited on the fabric of humanity and its collective values of solidarity, as well as shared interests, by the practices of modern capitalism."Morning Star"A wise old man, raging against the rise of new evils and yet retaining a passion for a redemptive and transformative mission for sociology and its concerns, is something laudable."Times Higher Education

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저자(글) Zygmunt Bauman

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Zygmunt Bauman is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of many books that have become international bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages, including 44 Letters on the Liquid Modern World, Liquid Times, The Art of Life and Living on Borrowed Time.