Liquid Modernity (Record no. 51099)
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| fixed length control field | 01465 a2200145 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250902171744.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780745624105 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 303.4 BAU |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bauman, Zygmunt |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Liquid Modernity |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Polity Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2012 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Cambridge |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 228 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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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| Koha item type | Book |
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