Edition: 2024
Pages: 192
Series: EL
ISBN: 9788842094814
Pages: 192
Series: EL
ISBN: 9788842094814
The Art of Living
“In our individualized society we are all artists of life – whether we know it or not, will it or not and like it or not, by decree of society if not by our own choice. In our liquid-modern world, we are happy so long as we don't lose the hope to be happy in the future. But hope can only remain alive when we have in front of us new possibilities and an infinite chain of new beginnings. We have to create difficult challenges; we have to choose objectives that are far beyond our present possibilities. We have to try ‘the impossible’. It is at once a thrilling and wearying life: thrilling for those who love adventure, wearying for those with a faint heart.” “The readers must decide whether the imposed pursuit of happiness in the form practiced in our consumer society makes its subjects truly happy or not.”
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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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