Leonidas Donskis: 5 books

There is nothing new about evil; it has been with us since time immemorial. But there is something new about the kind of evil that characterizes our contemporary liquid-modern world. The evil that characterized earlier forms of solid modernity was concentrated in the hands of states claiming monopolies...

Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one’s ethical gaze....

To entail, scan and embrace more knowledge of ?hat is?and ?hat ought to be done?in fewer words ?to make a statement as short, concise, terse and pithy as possible while rendering the sights it opens as vast as possible ?is the principal intention of the practitioners of the difficult art of the aphorism....

El mal no es algo novedoso; ha estado con nosotros desde tiempos inmemoriales. Pero sí hay algo nuevo en el tipo de maldad que caracteriza nuestro mundo contemporáneo líquido-moderno. El mal se ha vuelto más penetrante, menos visible, se oculta en el tejido mismo de la convivencia humana y en...

Quando il dolore morale perde la salutare funzione di avvertimento, di allarme e di spinta ad aiutare il nostro simile, inizia il tempo della cecità morale. La cultura consumistica trasforma qualsiasi negozio o agenzia di servizi in una farmacia dove rifornirsi di tranquillanti e analgesici...