The Art of Life Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Bauman, Zygmunt
- Used
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Details
- Title The Art of Life
- Author Bauman, Zygmunt
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press
- Date 2008-09-02
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP64393536
- ISBN 9780745643267 / 0745643264
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.27 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Individualism, Life
- Dewey Decimal Code 302.54
From the rear cover
In our liquid modern society we are also taught to believe that the purpose of the art of life should be and can be happiness - though it's not clear what happiness is, the images of a happy state keep changing and the state of happiness remains most of the time something yet-to-be-reached.
This new book by Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and influential social thinkers writing today - is not a book of designs for the art of life nor a 'how to' book: the construction of a design for life and the way it is pursued is and cannot but be an individual responsibility and individual accomplishment. It is instead a brilliant account of conditions under which our designs-for-life are chosen, of the constraints that might be imposed on their choice and of the interplay of design, accident and character that shape their implementation. Last but not least, it is a study of the ways in which our society - the liquid modern, individualized society of consumers - influences (but does not determine) the way we construct and narrate our life trajectories.
