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Tables of Contents for Life in Fragments
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: In Search of Postmodern Reason
1
10
Morality without Ethics
10
34
Society: the operation cover-up
Facing the unfaceable
Weaving the veil
The veil pierced
The veil torn up
Morality uncovered
Ethical laws, moral standards
Forms of Togetherness
44
28
Being-aside, being-with, being-for
Convention and commitment
The unbearable uncertainty of being-for
The good is in the future
Broken Lives, Broken Strategies
72
33
Breaking out, into prison
Acceleration and its discontents: `quality of life'
Acceleration and its discontents: `identity'
Modern life as pilgrimage
The world inhospitable to pilgrims
The pilgrim's successors
What chance of morality?
What chance of polity?
A Catalogue of Postmodern Fears
105
21
Fears of Panopticon
From purveyors of goods to sensations-gatherers
From health to fitness
The body under siege
From handling to tasting
The Stranger Revisited - and Revisiting
126
13
Two strategies of living with strangers
The stranger, as seen by the flaneur
The stranger ante portas
The stranger, Janus-faced
Violence, Postmodern
139
24
The drifting frontier
The ways and means of separating deeds and morals
Adiaphorization, the postmodern version
Violence, do-it-yourself style
An inconclusive conclusion
Tribal Moralities
163
60
The Body as Task
163
16
Guarding the frontiers of civilization
Border control privatized
Racism, Anti-racism and Moral Progress
179
13
The administration of strangers
Moral progress?
The new world disorder, or respacing the world
Insecurity and cruelty
A Century of Camps?
192
14
Modernizing cruelty
`Antisemitism' Reassessed
206
17
Jews are unlike the others
Jews mean the impossibility of order
Changing times, changing places
Morality and Politics
223
66
Intellectuals in the Postmodern World
223
20
Modern origins of the intellectuals
The `intelligentsia' of the civilizational periphery
Estrangement and engagement
The social dislocation of intellectuals
Towards a recomposition?
Europe of Nations, Europe of Tribes
243
13
An Epilogue: Threats and Chances, Old and New
256
33
The story so far...
... and the beginning of a new story
The chances of moral togetherness
The new community?
Between hope and despair
New ethics in search of new politics
Can we do it? Will we do it?
Index
289