Télécharger le livre :  Of God and Man
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In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place of spirituality and religion in the world today and in the everyday lives of individuals. Their conversation ranges from...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-08-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Practices of Selfhood
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Contemporary understanding of human subjectivity has come a long way since the Cartesian 'thinking thing' or Freud's view of the self struggling with its unconscious. We no longer think of ourselves as stable and indivisible units or combinations thereof - instead, we...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-05-19

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Télécharger le livre :  State of Crisis
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Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-07-17

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Télécharger le livre :  What Use is Sociology?
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What's the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doubt in the minds of many. At a time when there is widespread scepticism about the value of sociology and of the social sciences generally, this short book by one of the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-02-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Does the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All?
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It is commonly assumed that the best way to help the poor out of their misery is to allow the rich to get richer, that if the rich pay less taxes then all the rest of us will be better off, and that in the final analysis the richness of the few benefits us all. And yet...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-07-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Liquid Modernity
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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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-07-10

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Télécharger le livre :  In Search of Politics
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We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself for new ones, without knowing where it is going and without trying to plan the itinerary. And everything important in our...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-07-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Community
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'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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-06-06
Collection : Themes for the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman
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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....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-31
Collection : Conversations
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Télécharger le livre :  Globalization
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'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface manifestations. Unpacking the social roots and social consequences of globalizing processes, this book disperses some of the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-28
Collection : Themes for the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Modernity and the Holocaust
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Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holocaust. The book examines what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly concentrates upon the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Legislators and Interpreters
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The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity.The theme of the book is that the tasks of intellectuals change from being 'legislators' to 'interpreters' with the transition...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Art of Life
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In our individualized society we are all artists of life – whether we know it or not, will it or not and like it or not, by decree of society if not by our own choice.In this society we are all expected, rightly or wrongly, to give our lives purpose and form by using...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Europe
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More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique among the continents, has developed in more than two millennia of history: its self-criticism, its urge to self-transcendence, exploration and experiment, its conviction...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-08
Collection : Themes for the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Society under Siege
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Society is under siege – under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to take shape, and from the fluid, undefined domain of life politics. The space between these two fronts, until recently...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies
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Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'taboo' 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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Culture in a Liquid Modern World
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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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Modernity and Ambivalence
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Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In this book, now available in paperback, Bauman argues that our postmodern age is the time for...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-08

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Télécharger le livre :  This is not a Diary
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This is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 in the form of dated entries, they are not a personal reflection but an attempt to capture signs of our times in their movement - possibly at birth, at a stage when they are...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Identity
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This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we grapple with the insecurity and uncertainty of liquid modernity, Bauman argues that our socio-political, cultural, professional, religious and sexual identities are...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-08
Collection : Themes for the 21st Century
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