Liquid modernity
[...] In this important book Zygmunt Bauman introduces the concept which, more than any other, has come to define his vision of contemporary societies : liquid modernity. The transition from "solid" to "liquid" modernity is the shift from a world in which human beings were seekin...
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| Médium: | Livre papier |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Cambridge ; Malden :
Polity Press
C 2012.
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| Vydání: | édition 2012. |
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Autre tirage : 2013 |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Shrnutí: | [...] In this important book Zygmunt Bauman introduces the concept which, more than any other, has come to define his vision of contemporary societies : liquid modernity. The transition from "solid" to "liquid" modernity is the shift from a world in which human beings were seeking to create a well-ordered world of stable structures to a world in which the very ideas of order and stability no longer have any purchase, a world in which change is the only permanence and uncertainty the only certainty. A hundred years ago, "to be modern" meant to strive for a state of perfection ; today it means to modernize compulsively, perpetually, with no final state in sight and none desired. In Liquid Modernity Bauman develops his distinction between solid and liquid modernity by focusing on five concepts that have served to make sense of our shared human life - emancipation, individuality, time / space, work and community. This edition includes a new Foreword, "Liquid Modernity Revisited", in which Bauman reflects on his key concpet and its continued relevance a decade after this book was first published [...] |
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| Popis jednotky: | Autre tirage : 2013 |
| Fyzický popis: | 1 volume (XIX-228 pages) : couverture illustrée ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliografie: | Bibliographie pages [217]-224. Index |
| ISBN: | 9780745624099 (relié) 074562409X 9780745624105 (broché) 0745624103 |