Liquid Modernity Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:2105633 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2105633 N2 - {In 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. <br><p>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. <br><p><i>Liquid Modernity</i> concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books <i>Globalization: The Human Consequences</i> and <i>In Search of Politics</i>. 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.} SN - 0745624103 TI - Liquid Modernity PB - Polity KW - globalization KW - modernity AU - Bauman, Zygmunt PY - 2000/06/15/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0745624103 ER -