Edition: 2022
Pages: 182
Series: EL
ISBN: 9788842082347
Pages: 182
Series: EL
ISBN: 9788842082347
Wasted Lives. Modernity and its outcasts
Whoever wants to study the extinction of humankind and of our history, and the rise of a new volatile species to replace us, will find an illuminating guide in Bauman’s books. Paola Capriolo, Corriere della Sera We like producing waste: without understanding that we are ourselves becoming waste. Bauman is relentless as ever; he demolishes our illusions and perversions page after page. A must-read. Lelio Demichelis, Tuttolibri Today’s world is full up. There are no more ‘frontiers’ towards which to channel the superfluous population. The analogy described by Zygmunt Bauman, from the material waste of manufacturing and consumer processes to the human waste generated by historical processes, is revealed in this essay as a powerful interpretative key for history. Guido Viale, La Repubblica
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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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