Edition: 2024
Pages: 310
Series: IR/L
ISBN: 9788842097358
Pages: 310
Series: IR/L
ISBN: 9788842097358
Liquid Modernity
«Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of liquid modernity».
When Bauman coined it, the metaphor of liquidity marked our days and entered common speech as a notion for describing the kind of modernity we are living in. An individualised; privatised, uncertain, flexible, vulnerable modernity, where an unprecedented liberty balances an ambiguous sort of joy and a craving, insatiable desire.
Liquid Modernity is a modern classic and a bestseller in Italy and internationally.
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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