Liquid Modernity

Name: Liquid Modernity
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ISBN: 9780745624105

ISBN-10: 0745624103

ISBN-13: 9780745624105

Edition: 2000

Authors: Zygmunt Bauman

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In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history.This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 6/8/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Foreword: On Being Light and Liquid



Emancipation



Individuality



Time/Space



Work



Community


Afterthoughts: On Writing; on Writing Sociology


Notes


Index