Liquid Times Living in an Age of Uncertainty

Name: Liquid Times Living in an Age of Uncertainty
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ISBN: 9780745639871

ISBN-10: 0745639879

ISBN-13: 9780745639871

Edition: 2007

Authors: Zygmunt Bauman

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The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to solidify and cannot serve as frames of reference for human actions and long-term life plans, so individuals have to find other ways to organise their lives. They have to splice together an unending series of short-term projects and episodes that don't add up to the kind of sequence to which concepts like 'career' and 'progress' could meaningfully be applied. Such fragmented lives require individuals to be flexible and adaptable - to be…

Book details

List price: $15.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 12/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.30" wide x 7.30" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Introduction: Bravely into the Hotbed of Uncertainties



Liquid-Modern Life and its Fears



Humanity on the Move



State, Democracy and the Management of Fears



Out of Touch Together



Utopia in the Age of Uncertainty