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Liquid Modernity
This book has been translated by Arab Research and Publishing Network
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 whichhave served to make sense of shared human life – emancipation, individuality,time/space, work and community – and traces their successive incarnations andchanges of meaning.
Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman’s two previous booksGlobalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics .
Together thesevolumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political lifeby one of the most original thinkers writing today.
About the AuthorZygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw.
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