Edition: 2023
Pages: 240
Series: EL
ISBN: 9788842089735
Pages: 240
Series: EL
ISBN: 9788842089735
Liquid Fear
“Crime, foreigners, the precariousness of work and life, the unpredictability of the future and the war on terrorism. From Bauman’s book emerges a fearful and impotent society; but one that is also more docile, more enslaved to material reality and incapable of imagining alternatives. Behind (or underneath) the appearance of ‘liquidity’ lurks what appears to be the most ‘immobile’ society ever made.” Lelio Demichelis, “Tuttolibri” “Bauman’s book is of rare insight and interest for what it says about the world’s fears. His analysis of the insinuation of fear as a consequence of ‘negative globalization’ is both detailed and shocking.” Giuseppe Galasso, “Il Corriere della Sera” “An unsweetened and clear-eyed account, an authentic exercise in the ‘pessimism of reason and will’ and an accurate analysis of how the global economy is profoundly changing human sentiment.” Bernardo Vecchi, “Il manifesto”
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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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