Index

Adiaphorization, 53–54

Adorno, Theodor, 27, 196–198, 201, 205

Aeschylus, 101–102

Agamben, Giorgio, 80, 83, 85

Agier, Michel, 38–39

Alberti, Leon Battista, 211

Anders, Günther, 119, 115

Arendt, Hannah, 200–205

Aristotle, 32, 254

Art of life, 17–18, 116–117, 123–126, 131, 135–139

Arts, liquid-modern, 197–199, 212–213, 215–218, 220–221

Attali, Jacques, 248

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 156

Banalization, 93–99, 102

Bateson, Gregory, 99

Baudrillard, Jean, 177

Beauty, 201, 211–213, 218–223

Beck, Ulrich, 110

Belloc, Hilaire, 184

Benjamin, Walter, 143

Bennett, William J., 247

Berlin, Isaiah, 114

Berman, Martin, 231–232

Bertman, Stephen, 172

Blake, William, 241

Boltanski, Luc, 61

Boorstin, Daniel J., 208

Borges, Luis, 16

Bourdieu, Pierre, 50, 110, 192

Brecht, Bertolt, 38

Brodsky, Joseph, 46, 178, 197, 202, 224

Burke, Kenneth, 112

Calvino, Italo, 77

Campbell, Colin, 58

Camus, Albert, 118

Carroll, Lewis, 219

Castells, Manuel, 26

Chalk, Frank, 81

Chiapello, Eve, 61

Citizenship, 189–192, 243

City life, 64–67

Civilization, 79, 88, 118, 150–155, 223

Cohen, Richard, 63

Commodification of culture, 207–210, 218–220

Community, 21–23, 103–106, 151–155

Consumerism, 50–59, 61, 139, 143–149, 157–159, 161, 165, 168–171, 205–207

Cultural hybridity, 24

Culture, 194–201, 206

“Dark Times,” 204–205

Derrida, Jacques, 227, 256

Diderot, Denis, 114

Diken, Bulent, 65

Donne, John, 72

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 46, 118–119

Dowling, Colette, 53–54

Drucker, Peter, 66

Dubar, Claude, 18

Dunn, John, 139

Durkheim, Emile, 47, 50

Ehrenberg, Alain, 51

Elias, Norbert, 86, 154

Ellin, Nan, 65

Enlightenment, 112–114

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, 159, 161, 164

Ethical demand, 48–49, 51–55, 62–63

Europe vs. U.S., 230–240

Fein, Helen, 81

Ferguson, Harvey, 41

Festinger, Leon, 36

Foucault, Michel, 123, 155

Freedom vs. security, 13–14, 18–19, 118

Freud, Sigmund, 25, 31–32, 67, 50, 118, 151–155, 223

Genocide, 81–82, 86–87, 102–105

Girard, René, 105

Giroux, Henry, 191

Globalization, 26–28, 38–39, 71–77, 107–109, 246–248

Gumpert, David, 66

Habermas, Jürgen, 29, 113, 115, 231, 244–245, 251–256

Haste, Helen, 158

Havel, Václav, 29–30, 112

Hegel, Friedrich, 181

Heidegger, Martin, 41, 90–91, 180, 225, 227

Hilberg, Raul, 88

Hillel, Rabbi, 32

Hobbes, Thomas, 35, 47, 50, 54, 79, 151

Hochschild, Arlie Russell, 53–54, 59–61, 139

Holbrook, Richard, 95

Holocaust, 80–85, 89–90, 98–99

“Homeostatic culture,” 201–202

Horkheimer, Max, 198

Hospitality, 226–227

Husserl, Edmund, 39–44

Identification, 13, 18, 20, 23, 121, 137, 161

Inadequacy vs. guilt, 51

Intellectuals, 25–29, 112

Jaspers, Karl, 72

Jonas, Hans, 73, 207

Jonassohn, Kurt, 81

Jospin, Lionel, 242

Kafka, Franz, 257

Kant, Immanuel, 9, 40, 114, 225–227, 237, 242

Kapuściński, Ryszard, 102–103, 107, 227–228

Kaufman, Jean-Claude, 21

Keats, John, 211, 218

Klein, Naomi, 209–210

Knowlton, Brian, 192

Kooning, Willem de, 211

Koppel, Ted, 234–235

Kosseleck, Reinhardt, 254–255

Kotter, John, 184

Krugman, Paul, 237

Kundera, Milan, 145, 202, 207

Lanchester, John, 133

Layard, Richard, 168

Learning vs. forgetting, 148, 180–189

Levinas, Emmanuel, 39–55, 62–64, 77

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 176

Lifelong learning, 182–184, 187–190, 193

Life politics, 14–15, 28, 117

Liquid vs. solid modernity, 8, 49, 51, 105, 117–118, 132, 138–139, 150, 156–157, 166, 172, 174, 180, 184–188

Livingstone, James, 58

Local retrenchment vs. global responsibility, 250–252, 206

Locke, John, 115–116

Løgstrup, Knud, 45, 48–49, 51–52, 55–57, 61–64, 69, 77

Managerialism, 195–206

“Managerial Revolution, Mark Two,” 203, 206–208, 223–224

Martin, Bill, 163

Maslow, Abraham, 168

Materialization of love, 59–60

Mathiesen, Thomas, 171

Melucci, Alberto, 185–186

Memory, historical, 91–92

Mennenius Agrippa, 74

Merton, Robert, 70

Michaud, Yves, 211, 219–221

Mirandola, Pico della, 118

Mixophobia, 67–69

Mort, Frank, 55

Mrożek Sławomir, 179

Munro, Roland, 165

Nation-building, 153–155, 243–245

Nemo, Philippe, 63

Networks, 13–15, 120–121

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 35–37

Offe, Claus, 110, 255

Order-building, 83–86, 103–106

Oswald, Andrew, 168

Other, 40–45, 52–55, 69–70, 241

Parity, 12, 118–120

Parsons, Talcott, 148, 171, 202

Pascal, Blaise, 180

Petrello, Ricardo, 185

Picasso, Pablo, 213

Plato, 112

Pleasure principle vs. reality principle, 47, 50, 156

Pointillist time, 172–176

Poirié, François, 45

Pursuit of happiness, 115–117, 157, 165–170, 180

Ramonet, Ignazio, 162

Ranke, Leopold von, 91

Renan, Ernest, 154

Responsibility, 46–49, 51–55, 119, 145

Ressentiment, 35–38, 65–71

Ricoeur, Paul, 90–91

Risk, 52, 68, 118–119, 140

Rorty, Richard, 111–112

Rougemont, Denis de, 229

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 35, 114

Rumsfeld, Donald, 232

Sabini, John P., 84

Sacralization, 93–95, 98–99, 102

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 127–128

Scheler, Max, 35–37

Schismogenetic chain, 99–102, 108–109

Schmitt, Carl, 79–80, 85

Schwartzer, Michael, 66

“Secesssion Mark Two,” 74–76

Self-fulfillment, 52–54

Self-love, 33–35

Sennett, Richard, 67–68

Shakespeare, William, 92

Shaw, George Bernard, 197

Shestov, Leon, 57–58

“Siege Wars” vs. “Wars of Movement,” 233–234

Silver, Mary, 84

Simmel, Georg, 43, 46, 164–165, 171

Singly, François de, 18–19

Social state, 139–143

Solidarity, 61, 72, 107–109, 140–142, 253, 256

Soros, George, 239,

Sovereign expressions of life, 61–64, 67–70

Stasiuk, Andrzej, 179

Steiner, George, 187, 210, 240

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 187

Stiglitz, Joseph, 249

Strangers, 38–39, 65–69

Swarms, 15–17

Swida-Ziemba, Hanna, 121–126

Tarkowska, Elżbieta, 160

Third, the, 43–46

Todorov, Tzvetan, 93–97

Tönnies, Ferdinand, 103

Toqueville, Alexis de, 114

Totalitarianism, 85–86

Trust, 55–58, 61–67, 108, 141

Utopia, 27–28, 54

Valdés, Manolo, 215–217

Veblen, Thorstein, 37

Villeglé, Jacques, 214–215, 217

Virilio, Paul, 233

Voltaire, 223

Wallerstein, Emmanuel, 231

Warhol, Andy, 222

War on terror, 233–236

“Wasted humans,” 140, 143

Waste disposal, 157–162, 171–173

Weber, Max, 74, 86, 147

Wilde, Oscar, 197

Wolfe, Tom, 214