Bauman, Zygmunt

Liquid modernity / Zygmunt Bauman - Cambridge : Polity Press, 2013 - xix, 228p. ; 23cm.

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.

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Civilization, Modern-- 20th century
Communities.
Individualism
Liberty
Sociology-- Philosophy
Space and time
Work

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