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Liquid Times
Living in an Age of Uncertainty
Taschenbuch von Zygmunt Bauman
Sprache: Englisch

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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 constantly ready and willing to change tactics at short notice, to abandon commitments and loyalties without regret and to pursue opportunities according to their current availability. In liquid modernity the individual must act, plan actions and calculate the likely gains and losses of acting (or failing to act) under conditions of endemic uncertainty.

Zygmunt Bauman's brilliant writings on liquid modernity have altered the way we think about the contemporary world. In this short book he explores the sources of the endemic uncertainty which shapes our lives today and, in so doing, he provides the reader with a brief and accessible introduction to his highly original account, developed at greater length in his previous books, of life in our liquid modern times.

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 constantly ready and willing to change tactics at short notice, to abandon commitments and loyalties without regret and to pursue opportunities according to their current availability. In liquid modernity the individual must act, plan actions and calculate the likely gains and losses of acting (or failing to act) under conditions of endemic uncertainty.

Zygmunt Bauman's brilliant writings on liquid modernity have altered the way we think about the contemporary world. In this short book he explores the sources of the endemic uncertainty which shapes our lives today and, in so doing, he provides the reader with a brief and accessible introduction to his highly original account, developed at greater length in his previous books, of life in our liquid modern times.

Über den Autor
Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Bravely into the Hotbed of Uncertainties 1

1 Liquid Modern Life and its Fears 5

2 Humanity on the Move 27

3 State, Democracy and the Management of Fears 55

4 Out of Touch Together 71

5 Utopia in the Age of Uncertainty 94

Notes 111

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Introduction: Bravely into the Hotbed of Uncertainties 11 Liquid Modern Life and its Fears 52 Humanity on the Move 273 State
Democracy and the Management of Fears 554 Out of Touch Together 715 Utopia in the Age of Uncertainty 94Notes 111
ISBN-13: 9780745639871
ISBN-10: 0745639879
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bauman, Zygmunt
Hersteller: Polity Press
John Wiley & Sons
Maße: 188 x 136 x 8 mm
Von/Mit: Zygmunt Bauman
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2007
Gewicht: 0,141 kg
Artikel-ID: 102170659
Über den Autor
Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Bravely into the Hotbed of Uncertainties 1

1 Liquid Modern Life and its Fears 5

2 Humanity on the Move 27

3 State, Democracy and the Management of Fears 55

4 Out of Touch Together 71

5 Utopia in the Age of Uncertainty 94

Notes 111

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Introduction: Bravely into the Hotbed of Uncertainties 11 Liquid Modern Life and its Fears 52 Humanity on the Move 273 State
Democracy and the Management of Fears 554 Out of Touch Together 715 Utopia in the Age of Uncertainty 94Notes 111
ISBN-13: 9780745639871
ISBN-10: 0745639879
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bauman, Zygmunt
Hersteller: Polity Press
John Wiley & Sons
Maße: 188 x 136 x 8 mm
Von/Mit: Zygmunt Bauman
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2007
Gewicht: 0,141 kg
Artikel-ID: 102170659
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