Zygmunt Bauman in Alone Again Ethics After Certainty published by Demos

To put it in a nutshell: the chance of counteracting the present pressures towards draining intimate and public life of ethical motives and moral evaluations depends at the same time on more autonomy for individual moral selves and more vigorous sharing of collective responsibilities. In terms of the orthodox ‘state vs. individual’ dilemma, this is clearly a contradiction and promoting it seems like an effort to square the circle.(p.35)