{"product_id":"liquid-modernity-by-zygmunt-bauman-9780745624105","title":"Liquid Modernity","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiquid Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books \u003cem\u003eGlobalization: The Human Consequences\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIn Search of Politics\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47617226637548,"sku":"9780745624105","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c1c5caa7624540fbc2da946a9cddaee2.jpg?v=1778531971","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/liquid-modernity-by-zygmunt-bauman-9780745624105","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}