Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Threats or Chances? -- 1. What Chance of Ethics in theGlobalized World of Consumers? -- 2. Categorial Murder, or the Legacy of theTwentieth Century and How to Remember It -- 3. Freedom in the Liquid-Modern Era -- 4. Hurried Life, or Liquid-Modern Challenges to...

‘Progress’ has reached a point at which it engenders mounting fear and insecurity. As a response, Zygmunt Bauman argues, we seek substitute forms of satisfaction that appear to guard us against danger. One such substitute is the Sports Utility Vehicle (considered at greater length in Eduardo...