Книги автора Zygmunt Bauman

What is the role of education in a world where we no longer have a clear vision of the future and where the idea of a single, universal mode…

In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the…

Contemporary understanding of human subjectivity has come a long way since the Cartesian 'thinking thing' or Freud's view of the self strugg…

Unde malum from where does evil come? That is the question that has plagued humankind ever since Eve, seduced by the serpent, tempted Adam t…

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing – the fashions…

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constr…

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

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the leading figures in contemporary social thought. His work ranges across issues of ethics, culture and politics. …

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…

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…

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

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

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…

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 pers…

Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity –…

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 societ…