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Liquid Modernity
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Liquid Modernity Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition

by Zygmunt Bauman

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Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000. First edition. paperback. very good/no dustjacket. 8vo. pp.228
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  • Title Liquid Modernity
  • Author Zygmunt Bauman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge
  • Date 2000
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 303187
  • ISBN 9780745624105 / 0745624103
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Individualism, Space and time
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303

From the rear cover

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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About the author

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw.