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DescriptionThe passage from solid to liquid modernity has created a newand unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confrontingindividuals with a series of challenges never before encountered.Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time tosolidify and cannot serve as frames of reference for human actionsand long-term life plans, so individuals have to find other ways toorganise their lives. They have to splice together an unendingseries of short-term projects and episodes that dont add up to thekind of sequence to which concepts like career and progresscould meaningfully be applied. Such fragmented lives requireindividuals to be flexible and adaptable - to be constantly readyand willing to change tactics at short notice, to abandoncommitments and loyalties without regret and to pursueopportunities according to their current availability. In liquidmodernity the individual must act, plan actions and calculate thelikely gains and losses of acting (or failing to act) underconditions of endemic uncertainty. Zygmunt Baumans brilliant writings on liquid modernity havealtered the way we think about the contemporary world. In thisshort book he explores the sources of the endemic uncertainty whichshapes our lives today and, in so doing, he provides the readerwith a brief and accessible introduction to his highly originalaccount, developed at greater length in his previous books, of lifein our liquid modern times.About the authorZygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Polity Press
