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Liquid Modernity

by Zygmunt Bauman

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In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history.

This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life - emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community - and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning.

Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics. Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today.

Synopsis:

In this work, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a "heavy" and "solid", hardware-focused modernity to a "light" and "liquid", software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition.

Description:

Includes bibliographic references (p. [217]-224) and index.

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About the Author

Zygmunt Bauman is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw.

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Table of Contents

Foreword: On Being Light and Liquid.

1. Emancipation.

2. Individuality.

3. Time/Space.

4. Work.

5. Community.

Afterthoughts: On Writing; on Writing Sociology.

Notes.

Index.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780745624105

Author:

Bauman, Zygmunt

Publisher:

Polity Press

Location:

Cambridge :

Subject:

General

Subject:

Civilization, Modern

Subject:

Sociology - General

Subject:

Work

Subject:

Community

Subject:

Postmodernism

Subject:

Liberty

Subject:

Space and time

Subject:

Individualism

Subject:

Communautâe

Subject:

Travail

Subject:

Post-modernisme

Subject:

Civilisation

Subject:

Libertâe

Subject:

Individu et sociâetâe

Subject:

Espace et temps

Subject:

Modernity & Postmodernity

Subject:

Social Theory

Copyright:

2000

Series Volume:

106-152

Publication Date:

March 2000

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

Professional and scholarly

Language:

English

Pages:

240

Dimensions:

9.04x6.02x.73 in. .70 lbs.

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Product details 240 pages Polity Press - 2000-06-15 English 9780745624105 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Gardners, In this work, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a "heavy" and "solid", hardware-focused modernity to a "light" and "liquid", software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition.