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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...
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the leading figures in contemporary social thought. His work ranges across issues of ethics, culture and politics. It never f...
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....
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...
It is commonly assumed that the best way to help the poor out oftheir misery is to allow the rich to get richer, that if the richpay less taxes then a...
An Unfinished Adventure
More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique among the continents, has developed in more than t...
Widely acclaimed insight on the human condition, updated to view modern issues through a sociological lens Now in its third edition, Thinking Sociolog...
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 andpost-modernity. The theme ...
Society is under siege – under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow ...
'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...
Coversations With Benedetto Vecchi
This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we grapple with the insecurity and uncertainty of liqu...
We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas More, w...
Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holoc...
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...
Bauman chápe holocaust jako „židovskou tragédii“, zdůrazňuje však její specifické rysy, které ji odlišují od všech ostatních genocid....
Explores the relationship between social theory, families and changing issues in familial relationships and charts social and economic changes and the...
Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'taboo' subject in modern societies: death and dying. ...
In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and soc...
Living in an Age of Uncertainty
The passage from ‘solid’ to ‘liquid’ modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individua...
Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets o...
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...
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...
We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself for...
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...
Unde malum from where does evil come? That is the question that has plagued humankind ever since Eve, seduced by the serpent, tempted Adam to taste th...
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There is nothing new about evil; it has been with us since time immemorial. But there is something new about the kind of evil that characterizes our c...
Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a remarkable work by all measures. Written by Zygmunt Bauman when he was still a professor in Poland, and origina...
Modernity and Its Outcasts
The production of ‘human waste’ – or more precisely, wasted lives, the ‘superfluous’ populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts �...
With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals be...
Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of huma...
Ethics After Certainty
When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of im...
Conversations with Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo
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 ...
In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure an...
Seeking Safety in an Insecure World
'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the...
In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place of ...
The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
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 everyd...
Selected Writings, Volume 2
A victim of the Nazis, then the communists. Twice a refugee, yet always remaining a committed socialist. In countless ways, Zygmunt Bauman lived the p...