Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Keywords: morality, postmodern, essays, fragments, life
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1995
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0631192670
ISBN-13: 9780631192671

Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: century, themes, adventure, unfinished, europe
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2004-12-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0745634036
ISBN-13: 9780745634036

More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique among the continents, has developed in more than two millennia of history: its self-criticism, its urge to self-transcendence, exploration and experiment, its conviction that alternative and better forms of human togetherness can be achieved, as well as its dedication to the cause of seeking and promoting this improvement in practice. But today Europe is unsure of itself and its place in a fast-changing world; it is devoid of vision, limited in resources and lacking the will to pursue its vocati

Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher: Demos
Keywords: papers, demos
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1994-05-18
List price: $8.68
ISBN-10: 189830940X
ISBN-13: 9781898309406

Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: thought, social, concepts, freedom
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1989-03-15
List price: $21.50
ISBN-10: 0816617570
ISBN-13: 9780816617579

Freedom is a concept central to many of the social sciences. This book explores the social production of ’free agents’, and the intimate connection between this process and the issues of systemic integration and social control.

Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: ethics, postmodern
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1993-12-15
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 063118693X
ISBN-13: 9780631186939

Zygmunt Bauman’s powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen, and dealt with, in a wholly new way. Our era, he suggests, may actually represent a dawning, rather than twilight, for ethics.

Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: modernity, liquid
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-06-15
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0745624103
ISBN-13: 9780745624105

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 experi

Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: siege, society
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2002-11-08
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0745629857
ISBN-13: 9780745629858

Society is under siege – under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to take shape, and from the fluid, undefined domain of life politics. The space between these two fronts, until recently ruled by the sovereign nation-state and identified by social scientists as ‘society’ is ever more difficult to conceive of as a self-enclosed entity. And this confronts the established wisdom of the social sciences with a new challenge: sovereignty and power are becoming separated from the politics of the territorial na