The Art of Life (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

The Art of Life (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

This new book by Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and influential social thinkers writing today - is a study of the ways in which our society - the liquid modern, individualized society of consumers - influences (but does not determine) the way we construct and narrate our life

Liquid Life (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

'Liquid life' is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty. The most acute and stubborn

Liquid Fear (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

In this brilliant new account of the fears and anxieties that weigh on us today, Zygmunt Bauman - one of the foremost social thinkers of our time - alerts us to the scale of the task confronting us in the current century if we wish our fellow humans to emerge at its end feeling more secure and

Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: A Conversation with Peter Haffner (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be the pre-eminent social thinker for which he became world renowned, a thinker who never shied away

Culture and Art: Selected Writings, Volume 1 (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

The sociological imagination and the artistic imagination have been historically intertwined, at once reciprocal and conflicting, complementary and tensional. This connection is nowhere more apparent than in the work of Zygmunt Bauman. His conception and practice of sociology were always infused

Strangers at Our Door (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown

Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

The production of 'human waste' - or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity

Modernity and the Holocaust (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

A new afterword to this edition, The Duty to Remember--But What? tackles difficult issues of guilt and innocence on the individual and societal levels. Zygmunt Bauman explores the silences found in debates about the Holocaust, and asks what the historical facts of the Holocaust tell us about the

Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

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

Thinking Sociologically (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

Widely acclaimed insight on the human condition, updated to view modern issues through a sociological lens Now in its third edition, Thinking Sociologically continues to offer a stimulating exploration of the underlying assumptions and tacit expectations which structure our view of the world. The

Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

'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

Modernita a holocaust - Zygmunt Bauman

Cizinci před branami - Zygmunt Bauman

Známý sociolog Zygmunt Bauman (1925 - 2017) se ve své poslední knize věnuje tématu uprchlické krize. Na pozadí současné situace analyzuje původ a dopady morání paniky, ukazuje, jak politici zneužívají strachu obyvatel a dochází k závěru, že bychom se místo stavění zdí měli

Bauman: A Biography (Wagner Izabela)(Pevná vazba)

Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of 'liquid modernity', Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular writer and an intellectual talisman for young

Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

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

Modernity and the Holocaust (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback / softback)

New in paperback, this book, is likely to be adopted on many courses covering the Holocaust. A unique but disturbing book - winner of the 1989 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences. The hardback received enormous acclaim. Zygmunt Bauman is one of the world's leading social

Liquid Modernity (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

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

Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

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

Retrotopia (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state--a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler. But while we have

Globalization - The Human Consequences (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback / softback)

a Globalizationa is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface manifestations. Unpacking the social roots and social consequences of globalizing processes, this book disperses some of the mist that surrounds the

Modernita a holocaust - Zygmunt Bauman - e-kniha

eBook: Bauman chápe holocaust jako „židovskou tragédii“, zdůrazňuje však její specifické rysy, které ji odlišují od všech ostatních genocid. Konstatuje, že holocaust se objevil a byl realizován v naší moderní, racionalizované a racionalistické společnosti, na vysoké

Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'tohave a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feelsgood because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of thempromising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasureswhich we would like to experience but

Culture in a Liquid Modern World (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

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

Tekutý život - Zygmunt Bauman

Tekutý život přispívá k rostoucí nerovnosti, nejistotě a nedůvěře. Současná, moderní společnost rezignovala na své sociální základy a stabilní, pevný řád transformovala do měkké a pružné formy v domnění, že tím dosáhne maximální otevřenosti. Taková společnost