Liquid Modernity

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
Cover of the book Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman, Wiley
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Zygmunt Bauman ISBN: 9780745657011
Publisher: Wiley Publication: July 10, 2013
Imprint: Polity Language: English
Author: Zygmunt Bauman
ISBN: 9780745657011
Publisher: Wiley
Publication: July 10, 2013
Imprint: Polity
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Wiley

Cover of the book The Illusions of Postmodernism by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book The Employee Experience Advantage by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book Family History for the Older and Wiser by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book Leading Complex Projects by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book The New Advisor for Life by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book The Marketing Performance Blueprint by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book Forensic Photography by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book Principles of Algebraic Geometry by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book Climate Change Adaptation in Small Island Developing States by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book Software Specification Methods by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book M&A Disputes by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book IMechE Engineers' Careers Guide 2013 by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book When Can You Trust the Experts? by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book Understanding Uncertainty by Zygmunt Bauman
Cover of the book Aquatic Chemistry by Zygmunt Bauman
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy