Книги автора Zygmunt Bauman

The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity…

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 a…

The production of ‘human waste’ – or more precisely, wasted lives, the ‘superfluous’ populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts – …

Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human…

This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, ‘liquid modern’ times – the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with non…

With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, indi…

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', s…

'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-mo…

In this lucid, stimulating and original book, Zygmunt Bauman and Tim May explore the underlying assumptions and tacit expectations which str…

This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we grapple with the insecurity and uncertain…

'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 beca…

More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique among the continents, has developed in m…

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas…

We are spurred into action by our troubles and fears; but all too often our action fails to address the true causes of our worries. When try…

Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversati…

Widely acclaimed insight on the human condition, updated to view modern issues through a sociological lens Now in its third edition, Thinkin…

In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in genera…