Zygmunt Bauman gives short shrift to the charge of pessimism: we have enough court poets and enough triumphalism in liberal capitalism, he comments drily, so why should he point out its virtues?
In fact he is much more optimistic in person than in his published work. His current thinking can be summed up in one of his favourite phrases:
Do we take "responsibility for our responsibility"?
Do we acknowledge and accept our responsibilities, be they personal, political or global?
Indeed, much of his writing on globalisation focuses on his claim that it is primarily a moral issue. Bauman points out that Freud's thesis that human beings had traded freedom for security has been inverted; now we have traded security for freedom and with that freedom has come unprecedented responsibilities for the conduct of our own emotional lives and for our political participation.
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