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