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…

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

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

‘Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often coope…

In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating ‘the people' b…

Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in …

The term ‘collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed i…

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

Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'taboo' subject in modern societies: death a…

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

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

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

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…

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

Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no…

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…