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Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty
The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to solidify and cannot serve as frames of reference for human actions and long-term life plans, so individuals have to...more
Paperback, 115 pages
Published
June 1st 2007
by Polity Press
(first published January 1st 1999)
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Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish-born sociologist in the Marxist tradition mostly known for his thoroughgoing critiques of consumerism, modernity, and cultural memory (especially the Holocaust). His “liquid” books, including “Liquid Modernity” (2000), “Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds” (2003), “Liquid Life” (2005), “Liquid Fear” (2006), and the book presently considered, “Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty” (2006), for the most part seem to be shorter books whose aim is to adumbra...more
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Last night saw the opening of the 'In Me, the Paradox of Liberty' festival in Amsterdam, organized by Castrum Peregrini, with a keynote speech by the eminent Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman.
Bauman's speech, titled 'Freedom and security, a case of hassliebe', illustrated a central theme in his recent work. Security, broadly defined as peace of mind, a feeling of control over one's life, stands at the opposite end of the spectrum from freedom, which is the ability to follow one's desires and liv...more
Bauman's speech, titled 'Freedom and security, a case of hassliebe', illustrated a central theme in his recent work. Security, broadly defined as peace of mind, a feeling of control over one's life, stands at the opposite end of the spectrum from freedom, which is the ability to follow one's desires and liv...more
The chapter on cities ("Out of Touch Together") is a good one for mediators to read. "Since strangers are bound to carry on their lives in each other's company for a long time to come, whatever the future twists and turns of urban history, the art of living peacefully and happily with difference and benefiting from the variety of stimuli and opportunities acquires paramount importance among the skills a city resident needs to (and would be better to) learn and deploy."
Liquid Times Is a very short book by an author that explains in an authorized and scientific voice one of the phenomena that is happening in our current times: the fact that our lives are no solid thing any more. One is not any more intended to start a long term relationship with the world at the moment of birth and become an old and respectable member of society. Instead; one is meant to live a life of struggle and continuous movement from one job to another while independently trying to build...more
I love Bauman. He tells it like it is in under 200 pages. ZB follows the same themes in this book as he did in Wasted Lives and Liquid Modernity-- the change from solid captialism to "liquid times" of shifting capital and uncertain markets. ZB is good at looking at how uncertain times impacts the way we relate to each other and how respond to crisis in ways that are supportive of each other, rather than in ways that continue the decent into uncertainty.
Considering the size of the book, it shouldn't have taken me so long to read. A 100 page book giving a brief yet thorough analysis of Bauman's concept of liquid modernity, it provides a concise introduction into one of his most well known theories. Once able to fully emerse myself into the finer complexities of the reading, I found it to be an instructive and fascinating review of our current social condition.
He put a lot of my thoughts and feelings over the last decade or so into words. I really, really, really want to read more work by Zygmunt.
He has some interesting points, but it's very dense and indoctrinating sometimes.
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Zygmunt Bauman is a world-renowned Polish sociologist and philosopher, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. He was one of the creators of the concept of “postmodernism”.
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