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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.

Zygmunt Bauman entwirft das Bild einer Moderne, die sich durch exterritorial und mobil gewordene Machtstrukturen auszeichnet. Das Individuum ist zwar in die Freiheit entlassen, muß das soziale Gewebe jedoch in Heimarbeit selbst herstellen. Es gibt kein Schaltzentrum der Macht mehr, die Strukturen sind flüchtig, die Freiheit beliebig. In seiner mitreißenden Analyse wagt Zygmunt Bauman einen Ausblick auf eine Zeit nach der Zweiten Moderne, die R...

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 means of seduction: it seeks no longer to enlighten the people but to seduce them. The function of culture today is not to satisfy existing needs b...

Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely unmanageable, such as art, academia and creativity. Some it supported and others it destroyed, but there are few areas in modern societies that have been untouched by it. What is the meaning of managemen...

Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely unmanageable, such as art, academia and creativity. Some it supported and others it destroyed, but there are few areas in modern societies that have been untouched by it. What is the meaning of managemen...

Zygmunt Baumana s new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the a tabooa subject in modern societies: death and dying. The book develops a new theory of the ways in which human mortality is reacted to, and dealt with, in social institutions and culture.