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Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings co...
Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer be...
In this lucid, stimulating and original book, Zygmunt Bauman and Tim May explore the underlying assumptions and tacit expectations which structure our...
'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern soc...
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-ba...
Explores the relationship between social theory, families and changing issues in familial relationships and charts social and economic changes and the...
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 mak...
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The Human Consequences
'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface mani...
An Unfinished Adventure
Recoge: 1. An adventure called "Europe" - 2. In the empire's shadow - 3. From social state to security state - 4. Towards a world hospitable to Europe...
In this book, the noted sociologist confronts the decline of the public realm and the profound contradictions of freedom in present-day society. How c...
With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals be...
Forfatteren opstiller den hypotese,at menneskets viden om, at det skal dø, har dybtgående indflydelse på den sociale opbygning i alle samfund...
On Modernity, Post-modernity and Intellectuals
The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity. The them...
Modernity and Its Outcasts
The production of ‘human waste’ – or more precisely, wasted lives, the ‘superfluous’ populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts �...
In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place of ...
When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of im...
Living in an Age of Uncertainty
Zygmunt Bauman's writings on liquid modernity have altered the way we think about the contemporary world. In this book, he explores the sources of the...
One subject which captured the imagination of sociologists, philosophers, political scientists and writers on culture in the 1980s was postmodernism. ...
A Conversation
‘Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate wil...
De volta ao passado na era da nostalgia Decorrente da crise dos Estados-nação e do abismo cada vez maior entre poder e política, a retrotopia é a ...
The Pre-history and After-life of Class
First published in 1982, Professor Bauman’s discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that ou...
Social Inequalities in a Global Age
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time. This new book focuses on social inequality....
The Active Utopia
Arguing that 'utopian' is frequently used as a pejorative term used to discredit whatever it describes, this title describes the positive contribution...
Conversations with Benedetto Vecchi
A Case Study in the Dialectics of Master and Slave