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In search of politics
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"We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself for new ones, without knowing where it is going a...
"We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself for new ones, without knowing where it is going and without trying to plan the itinerary. And everything important in our lives - livelihood, human bonds, partnerships, neighborhood, goals worth pursuing and dangers to avoid - feels transient, precarious, vulnerable, insecure, uncertain, risky. Is there a connection between the shape of the world we inhabit and the way we live our lives? Exploring that connection, and finding out just how close it is, is the main concern of this book." "This new book by Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and creative thinkers of out time - will be of particular interest to students of sociology, politics and social and political theory."--Jacket.
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- Creator
- Zygmunt Bauman
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999
- Physical Details
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- vi, 212 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0804738335, 9780804738330, 0804738343, 9780804738347
- OCLC
- ocm42250109
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-209) and index.
- In Search of Public Space -- A prowler around the house -- The cauldron of Unsicherheit -- Insecure security -- Uncertain certainty -- Unsafe safety -- Fears on the move -- The cooling-off of the human planet -- In Search of Agency -- Fear and laughter -- How free is freedom? -- The deconstruction of politics -- Where the private and the public meet -- The agora under attack: the two invasions -- Memories of paideia -- Ideology in the Postmodern World -- Tradition and Autonomy in the Postmodern World -- Postmodernity and Moral and Cultural Crises -- In Search of Vision -- The second reformation and the emergence of modular man -- Tribe, nation and republic -- Liberal democracy and the republic -- A parting of the ways -- The political economy of uncertainty -- The cause of equality in the uncertain world -- The case for a basic income -- Recalling universalism from exile -- Multiculturalism -- or cultural polyvalence? -- Living together in the world of differences