| Abstract [eng] |
The dissertation focuses on the problem of adiaphorization in Zygmunt Bauman’s social philosophy. The research is based on Bauman’s works, among which some are regarded as central to the assessment of the philosopheme of adiaphorization and Bauman’s methodological approach. Those are as follows: “Modernity and the Holocaust”, “Social Manipulation of Morality: Moralizing Actors, Adiaphorizing Action”, “A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity”, “Postmodern Ethics”, “Liquid Modernity”, “Consuming Life” and “Collateral Damage”. The dissertation aims to analyze and assess the role of the problem of adiaphorization in Bauman’s social philosophy, to review and systematize the definitions of adiaphorization and its descriptions as well as implications in Bauman’s works and to analyze the consistency of the philosophical premises of Bauman’s philosopheme of adiaphorization. The dissertation examines the results of conflicting marxist and levinasian premises as well as the premises of ethical and epistemological unity and of ethical and epistemological incommensurability converging in the philosopheme of adiaphorization. It assesses the role of metaphors with regard to Bauman’s methodological approach of “liquid sociology” and examines the problems of morality and epistemic functions, suggesting that not only does the term “adiaphorization” signify “moral indifference” but it also means “epistemic indifference”. It is shown that with the help of the liquidity of the philosopheme of adiaphorization and its levinasian premises Bauman’s “liquid sociology” (Mark Davis’ term) is also “humanization through metaphors” (Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Sophia Marshman’ term). |
