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Liquid Life


Liquid Life


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von: Zygmunt Bauman

16,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 18.04.2013
ISBN/EAN: 9780745657899
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 224

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'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty. <p>The most acute and stubborn worries that haunt this liquid life are the fears of being caught napping, of failing to catch up with fast moving events, of overlooking the ‘use by’ dates and being saddled with worthless possessions, of missing the moment calling for a change of tack and being left behind. Liquid life is also shot through by a contradiction: it ought to be a (possibly unending) series of new beginnings, yet precisely for that reason it is full of worries about swift and painless endings, without which new beginnings would be unthinkable. Among the arts of liquid-modern living and the skills needed to practice them, getting rid of things takes precedence over their acquisition.</p> <p>This and other challenges of life in a liquid-modern society are traced and unravelled in the successive chapters of this new book by one of the most brilliant and original social thinkers of our time.</p>
Introduction: On Living in a Liquid-Modern World. <p>1. The Individual Under Siege.</p> <p>2. From Martyr to Hero, and from Hero to Celebrity.</p> <p>3. Culture: Obstreperous and Unmanageable.</p> <p>4. Seeking Shelter in a Pandora Box or Fear, Security and the City.</p> <p>5. Consumers in Liquid-Modern Times.</p> <p>Consuming Life.</p> <p>Consuming Body.</p> <p>Consuming Childhood.</p> <p>6. Learning to Walk in Quicksand.</p> <p>7. Thinking in Dark Times (Arendt and Adorno Revisited).</p> <p>Notes.</p> <p>Index.</p>
<b>Zygmunt Bauman</b> (1925-2017) was Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds
'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty. <p>The most acute and stubborn worries that haunt this liquid life are the fears of being caught napping, of failing to catch up with fast moving events, of overlooking the ‘use by’ dates and being saddled with worthless possessions, of missing the moment calling for a change of tack and being left behind. Liquid life is also shot through by a contradiction: it ought to be a (possibly unending) series of new beginnings, yet precisely for that reason it is full of worries about swift and painless endings, without which new beginnings would be unthinkable. Among the arts of liquid-modern living and the skills needed to practice them, getting rid of things takes precedence over their acquisition.</p> <p>This and other challenges of life in a liquid-modern society are traced and unravelled in the successive chapters of this new book by one of the most brilliant and original social thinkers of our time.</p>

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