{"product_id":"liquid-modernity-hardcover","title":"Liquid Modernity - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eZygmunt Bauman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiquid Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books \u003ci\u003eGlobalization: The Human Consequences\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiquid Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books \u003ci\u003eGlobalization: The Human Consequences\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZygmunt Bauman\u003c\/b\u003e (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 9.27 x 6.21 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757201916192,"sku":"9780745624099","price":117.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c2ea7e18c691109fc9a1e2d765f262db_415305b7-7c07-4600-854e-0b4d48298edc.webp?v=1780096499","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/liquid-modernity-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}