Abstract: Ethic and morality are important issues for Bauman.Modernity is the product of morality and ethic,and modern society is faced with moral crisis.In a postmodern era,ethic calls for moral impulsion,and ethic crisis has provided chance and challenge for the recovery of morality.Enlightened by Levinas’s ethics,Bauman proposes his own ethics,trying to deconstruct its institution from the interior of modern ethics.However,he is puzzled by “the unconditional responsibility to others”,and he has to look for new substitution mechanism to produce the moral intention.

Key words: modernity, postmodernity, ethics, morality