Liquid Modernity

Name: Liquid Modernity
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By Zygmunt Bauman

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In Liquid Modernity, Zygmunt Bauman explores the shift from a 'solid' modernity rooted in stable, hardware-focused structures to a 'liquid' modernity characterised by fluidity and software-based systems. This transformation profoundly affects human experience, challenging traditional concepts such as emancipation, individuality, time and space, work, and community. Bauman analyses how these ideas have evolved in response to the new, more flexible social and political realities, completing the examination begun in his earlier works Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars of sociology, political science, and modern philosophy, as well as readers interested in contemporary social theory and the ongoing changes shaping global society.

aeo A major new book by one of the most original thinkers today. aeo Develops a distinctive argument about the a liquida nature of modernity. aeo Re--examines key concepts which look at the heart of orthodox accounts of the human condition, including the concepts of emancipation, individuality, work and community.

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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.

This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life - emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community - and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning.

Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics. Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today.

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Bauman is regarded as one of the most stimulating and original social thinkers of our time. According to the Times Higher Education Supplement, even on a bad day, his insights surpass those of most contemporary social theorists. The Times Literary Supplement praises his vivid writing and original perspective on modernity's shifting conditions. Contemporary Politics ranks him alongside giants of sociology, recognising his moral passion and ability to define the spirit of the age through thought-provoking analysis.