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La sorveglianza è una dimensione chiave del nostro mondo: siamo costantemente controllati, messi alla prova, valutati, giudicati nei più piccoli dettagli della vita quotidiana. E il paradosso è che siamo proprio noi - i sorvegliati - a fornire il più grande volume di informazioni personali, caricando contenuti sui social network, usando la nostra carta di credito, facendo acquisti e ricerche on line. Questo perché il bisogno di salvaguardare l...

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Oggi la crisi è al centro del dibattito pubblico. Nel tentativo di analizzarne le cause e ipotizzarne le conseguenze sul lungo periodo, siamo portati a paragonarla alla Grande Depressione. Ma c'è una differenza cruciale che distingue il malessere attuale dalla crisi degli anni Trenta: non abbiamo più fiducia nella capacità dello Stato di risolvere la situazione e individuare una via d'uscita. Nel mondo sempre più globalizzato, agli Stati nazio...

The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid'modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting forindividual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series ofchallenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutionsno longer have enough time to solidify and cannot serve as framesof reference for human actions and long-term life plans, soindividuals have to find other ways to organise their lives. Theyhave to splice together an unendi...

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.

Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings could at last take control of their lives and tame the uncontrolled forces of the social and natural worlds. And yet, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, we live again in a time of fear.

Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings could at last take control of their lives and tame the uncontrolled forces of the social and natural worlds. And yet, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, we live again in a time of fear. Whether it's the fear of natural disasters, the fear of environmental catastrophes or the fear of indiscrim...

Nella modernità liquida il tempo non è né ciclico né lineare, come normalmente era nella altre società della storia moderna e premoderna, ma invece "puntillistico" ossia frammentato in una moltitudine di particelle separate, ciascuna ridotta ad un punto". Questa perdita di senso del tempo, che ci costringe a vivere in un perpetuo e trafelato presente, in cui tutto è affidato all'esperienza del momento, è accompagnata dallo svuotamento dei crit...

L a caracterización de la modernidad como un «tiempo líquido» es uno de los mayores aciertos de la sociología contemporánea. La expresión, acuñada por Zygmunt Bauman, da cuenta con precisión del tránsito de una modernidad «sólida» ¿estable, repetitiva¿ a una «líquida» ¿flexible, voluble¿ en la que las estructuras sociales ya no perduran el tiempo necesario para solidificarse y no sirven de marcos de referencia para los actos humanos. Pero la i...

A brilliant new book by Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most original and influential social thinkers writing today. Bauman examines how, in our liquid modern society, individuals are required to choose their own lives and give meaning and purpose to them.

Wir leben in einer Welt des Übergangs von der »festen« zur »flüssigen« Moderne. Unsicherheit und Ungewissheit prägen den Alltag vieler Menschen, denen ohne stabile gesellschaftliche Formen und Institutionen ein Bezugsrahmen sowohl für ihr Handeln als auch für langfristige Lebenspläne fehlt und die sich gezwungen sehen, ihr Leben aus einer endlosen Abfolge von kurzfristigen Projekten und Episoden zusammenzuflicken. Konzepte wie »Karriere« oder ...

In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For Bauman, culture is a living, changing aspect of human interaction which must be understood and studied as a universal of human life. At the heart of his approach is the proposition th...

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the leading figures in contemporary social thought. His work ranges across issues of ethics, culture and politics. It never forgets that social thought ought to help men and women make sense of their lives and aspire towards something different. His books and essays always focus on the here and now: violence and moral indifference, globalization, consumerism, politics and individualization. They cast a sharp eye on the...

With characteristic brilliance, Zygmunt Bauman shows that the problem of coping with 'wasted lives' - the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - provides a key for understanding some otherwise baffling features of our shared life, from the strategies of global domination to the most intimate aspects of human relationships.

Life in Fragments" is a continuation of the themes and motifs explored in Zygmunt Bauman's acclaimed study, Postmodern Ethics (Blackwell, 1993). Described by Richard Sennett as a major event in social theory, Postmodern Ethics subverted the pieties of subversion which rule the postmodern imagination, arguing for an ethic of being with the Other, beyond the fashionable imperative of anything goes or the deconstruction of identity through differ...

This thoughtful and illuminating book provides a major statement on the meaning and importance of postmodernity.

We are spurred into action by our troubles and fears, but all too often our action fails to address the true causes of our worries. When trying to make sense of our lives, we tend to blame our own failings and weaknesses for our discomforts and defeats. And in doing so, we make things worse rather than better. Reasonable beings that we are, how does this happen and why does it go on happening?These are the questions addressed in this new book ...

Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. In an era of routine travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs that aid our thinking about the world have become an obstacle. He challenges members of the "knowledge class" to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society.

Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasures which we would like to experience but seem to miss.'Community' conveys the image of a warm and comfortable place, like a fireplace at which we warm our hands on a frosty day. Out there,...

∗ 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 theorists.