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...

It is one thing to be poor in a society of producers and universal employment; it is quite a different thing to be poor in a society of consumers, in which life projects are built around consumer choices rather than on work, professional skills or jobs. Where `being poor'' was once linked to...