Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age

Introduction: Collateral damage of social inequality 1 1 From the agora to the marketplace 10 2 Requiem for communism 27 3 The fate of social inequality in liquid modern times 40 4 Strangers are dangers ... Are they indeed? 52 5 Consumerism and morality 72 6 Privacy, secrecy, intimacy, human bonds and other collateral casualties of liquid modernity 83 7 Luck and the individualization of remedies 94 8 Seeking in modern Athens an answer to the ancient Jerusalem question 104 9 A natural history of evil 128 10 Wir arme Leut' ... 150 11 Sociology: whence and whither? 160 Notes 173 Index 180