Edition: 2024
Pages: 238
Series: EL
ISBN: 9788842079644
Pages: 238
Series: EL
ISBN: 9788842079644
Liquid Love. On the frailty of human bonds
“Solitude begets insecurity, but so does a love relationship. In a relationship, you can feel as insecure in it as you would be out of it, or even worse. Only the names you give your anxiety change”. The heroes of this book are contemporary men and women, who yearn after the security of togetherness and a helping hand to count on in times of need. Yet these same people are afraid of getting stuck in stable relationships and fear that a close bond involves responsibilities that they don’t want, or don’t believe, they can cope with. The new original book from one of the most influential sociologists of our time.
The author
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman is among the best known and most influential thinkers in the world. It is to him that we owe the dazzling definition of ‘liquid modernity’, of which he is one of the most acute observers. Professor emeritus of Sociology in the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw, Laterza has published almost all of his writing, including: Inside Globalization, Community. Seeking safety in an insecure world, Liquid Modernity, Interview on Identity (edited by Benedetto Vecchi), Society under Siege, Liquid Love, Wasted Lives. Modernity and its Outcasts, Liquid Life, Modus Vivendi. Hell and Utopia of the Liquid World, Liquid Fear, I Consume, Therefore I Am, The Art of Living, Parasitic Capitalism, Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?, Living on Borrowed Time: Conversations with Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo, ‘The Wealth of the few Benefits Most’. False!, Collateral Damage, The Sixth Power. Surveillance in liquid modernity (with D. Lyon), The Demon of Fear, Conversations on God and on Man (with S. Obirek).
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