Life in Fragments: essays in postmodern Morality/ Zygmunt Bauman

Introduction: In Search of Postmodern Reason
1 Morality without Ethics
Society: the operation cover-up • Facing the unfaceable
• Weaving the veil • The veil pierced • The veil torn up
• Morality uncovered • Ethical laivs, moral standards
2 Forms of Togetherness
Being-aside, heing-with, being-for • Convention and
commitment • The unbearable uncertainty of being-for
• The good is in the future
3 Broken Lives, Broken Strategies
Breaking out, into prison • Acceleration and its discontents:
'quality of life' • Acceleration and its discontents: 'identity'
• Modern life as pilgrimage • The world inhospitable to
pilgrims • The pilgrim's successors • What chance of
morality? What chance of polity?
4 A Catalogue of Postmodern Fears
Fears of Panopticon • From purveyors of goods to
sensations-gatherers • From health to fitness • The body
under siege • From handling to tasting
5 The Stranger Revisited - and Revisiting
Tivo strategies of living with strangers • The stranger, as
seen by the flaneur • The stranger ante portas • The
stranger, Janus-faced
6 Violence, Postmodern
The drifting frontier • The ways and means of separating
deeds and morals • Adiaphorization, the postmodern version
• Violence, do-it-yourself style • An inconclusive conclusion
1 Tribal Moralities
7.1 The Body as Task
Guarding the frontiers of civilization • Border control privatized
7.2 Racism, Anti-racism and Moral Progress
The administration of strangers • Moral progress? • The new
world disorder, or respacing the world • Insecurity and cruelty
7.3 A Century of Camps?
Modernizing cruelty
7.4 'Antisemitism' Reassessed
Jews are unlike the others • Jews mean the impossibility of
order • Changing times, changing places
8 Morality and Politics
8.1 Intellectuals in the Postmodern World
Modern origins of the intellectuals • The 'intelligentsia of the
civilizational periphery * Estrangement and engagement • The
social dislocation of intellectuals • Towards a recomposition?
8.2 Europe of Nations, Europe of Tribes
8.3 An Epilogue: Threats and Chances, Old and
New
The story so far and the beginning of a new story •
The chances of moral togetherness • The new community? •
Between hope and despair • New ethics in search of new
politics • Can we do it? Will we do it?