Télécharger le livre :  Liquid Love
This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, ‘liquid modern’ times – the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Wasted Lives
The production of 'human waste' – or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts – is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  On Education
What is the role of education in a world where we no longer have a clear vision of the future and where the idea of a single, universal model of humanity seems like the residue of a bygone age?What role should educators play in a world where young people find themselves...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Individualized Society
We are spurred into action by our troubles and fears; but all too often our action fails to address the true causes of our worries. When trying to make sense of our lives, we tend to blame our own failings and weaknesses for our discomforts and defeats. And in doing so,...

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Postmodernity and its Discontents
When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of impulse, the limiting of self expression. Today, in the time of modernity, Bauman argues, Freud's analysis no longer...

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Living on Borrowed Time
The global financial crisis has shattered the illusion that all was well with capitalism and forced us to confront the great challenges we face today with a new sense of urgency. Few are better placed to do this than Zygmunt Bauman, a social thinker whose writings on...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Moral Blindness
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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Liquid Life
'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty. The...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-18
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Télécharger le livre :  44 Letters From the Liquid Modern World
This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we fear. And we, the inhabitants...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Liquid Times
The passage from ‘solid’ to ‘liquid’ modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to solidify...

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Collateral Damage
The term ‘collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in human and personal terms. But...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Consuming Life
With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Culture in a Liquid Modern World
In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating ‘the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture has lost its...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Liquid Surveillance
‘Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Culture as Praxis
In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For...

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1998-12-15
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