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Community : Seeking Safety in an Insecure World by Zygmunt Bauman
$34.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasures which we would like to experience but see ...Show more
Culture in a Liquid Modern World by Zygmunt Bauman; Lydia Bauman (Translator)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In its original formulation, 'culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating 'the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture has lost its missionary role and has become a mean ...Show more
DOES ETHICS HAVE A CHANCE IN A WORLD OF CONSUMERS by Bauman Zygmunt
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Ser.
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that ordinary people can understand--about problems they feel ill equipped to solve. This book is no dry trea ...Show more
DOES ETHICS HAVE A CHANCE IN A WORLD OF CONSUMERS by Bauman Zygmunt
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Ser.
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that ordinary people can understand--about problems they feel ill equipped to solve. This book is no dry trea ...Show more
Does the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All? by Zygmunt Bauman
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
It is commonly assumed that the best way to help the poor out of their misery is to allow the rich to get richer, that if the rich pay less taxes then all the rest of us will be better off, and that in the final analysis the richness of the few benefits us all. And yet these commonly held beliefs are fl ...Show more
Liquid Fear by Zygmunt Bauman
$40.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings could at last take control of their lives and tame the uncontrolled forces of the social and natural worlds. And yet, at the dawn of the twenty-first centur ...Show more
Liquid Love : On the Frailty of Human Bonds by Zygmunt Bauman
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, 'liquid modern' times - the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the denizen of our l ...Show more
Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation by Zygmunt Bauman
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Polity Conversations Series
'Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar and accepted sight in public plac ...Show more
Liquid Times : Living in an Age of Uncertainty by Zygmunt Bauman
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 refere ...Show more
Living on Borrowed Time Conversations with Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo by Bauman Zygmunt
$37.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one's ethical gaze. Evil ...Show more
State of Crisis by Zygmunt Bauman
$33.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward. In ou ...Show more