Download or read book Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. In an era of routine travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs that aid our thinking about the world have become an obstacle. He challenges members of the “knowledge class” to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society.