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Perhaps no author conveys the spirit of contemporary life better than Zymunt Bauman
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Liquid Modernity
Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. Bauman selects five 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.
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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.
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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 and cannot serve as frames of reference for human actions and long-term life plans, so individuals have to find other ways to organise their lives.
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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 missionary role and has become a means of seduction: it seeks no longer to enlighten the people but to seduce them.
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Dear Colleague,
Polity Books is a leading international publisher in the social sciences and humanities, publishing some of the world’s best authors in these fields. They combine the publication of original, cutting-edge work of the highest quality with a systematic program of textbooks.
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For those of you who have not attended our book exhibits (and those who have), we are pleased to present the work of the late Zygmunt Bauman, one of the world’s most creative social scientists.
Each title presented on the right is on sale at a special, discounted rate. We urge you to sample the work of this profound scholar.
About the late
Zygmunt Bauman
"No sociologist that I know of, not one, is more in touch with the Zeigeist than Bauman." —Tony Blackshaw in Zygmunt Bauman (Key Sociologists)
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