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Titles by Zygmunt Bauman
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Liquid Surveillance
Is a dismal future of moment-by-moment monitoring closing in, or are there still spaces of freedom and hope? How do we realize our responsibility for the human beings before us, often lost in discussions of data and categorization? Dealing with questions of power, technology and morality, this book is a brilliant analysis of what it means to be watched – and watching – today.
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On Education
What is the role of education in a world where we no longer have a clear vision of the future and where the idea of a single, universal model of humanity seems like the residue of a bygone age? What role should educators play in a world where young people find themselves faced with deep uncertainty about their future?
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This is Not a Diary
These timely meditations by one of the most perceptive social thinkers of our time will appeal to a wide range of readers. This is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 in the form of dated entries, they are not a personal reflection but an attempt to capture signs of our times in their movement?
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Collateral Damage
The term ‘collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in human and personal terms. But collateral damage is not unique to the world of armed intervention - it is also one of the most salient and striking dimensions of contemporary social inequality. |
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The Art of Life
This new book by Zygmunt Bauman is a brilliant account of conditions under which our designs-for-life are chosen, of the constraints that might be imposed on their choice and of the interplay of design, accident and character that shape their implementation. Last but not least, it is a study of the ways in which our society influences (but does not determine) the way we construct and narrate our life trajectories. |
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Moral Blindness
Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others. This probing inquiry into the fate of our moral sensibilities will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the most profound changes that are silently shaping the lives of everyone in our contemporary liquid-modern world.
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Dear Colleague,
Based on the enthusiastic response we received to our presentation of Zygmunt Bauman’s classic books, we are happy—by popular demand—to tell you about and give you the opportunity to purchase Bauman’s most recent titles—at special discounted rates.
Directly below are several quotes from the writings of this profound, contemporary thinker:
NO MORE REVOLUTIONS
“If the time of systemic revolutions has passed, it is because there are no buildings where the control desks of the system are lodged and which could be stormed and captured by the revolutionaries; and also because it is excruciatingly difficult, nay impossible, to imagine what the victors, once
inside the buildings (if they found them first), could do to turn the tables and (put an end) to the misery that prompted them to rebel.” |
NO MORE LEADERS
“And there is no more 'Big Brother watching you'. No more great leaders to tell you what to do and to release you from responsibility for the consequences of your doings. In the world of individuals, there are only other individuals from which you may draw examples of how to go about your own life-business, bearing full responsibility for the consequences of investing your trust in (their examples).” |
FREEDOM
“The present-day situation emerged out of the radical melting of the fetters and manacles rightly or wrongly suspected of limiting the individual freedom to choose and to act. Marcuse's quandary is outdated since 'the individual' has already been granted all the freedom he might have dreamed of and all the freedom he might have reasonably hoped for; social institutions are only too willing to cede the worries of definitions and identities to the individual initiative, while universal principles to rebel against are hard to find.” |
We at the Library of Social Science were not familiar with Bauman’s thinking: His books and ideas came as a revelation. Bauman is perhaps our most insightful commentator on contemporary life—the world we actually live in (as opposed to the world as we wish or hope it would be). Please read about Bauman's latest books in the column to your right. All titles are available from Amazon.com at special, discounted rates.
Best regards,
Orion
PS: Polity Press is a leading international publisher in the social sciences. They combine the publication of original, cutting-edge work of the highest quality with a systematic program of textbooks. They also excel in promoting and publicizing their authors’ titles. Polity Press collaborates with Library of Social Science by participating in our Annual Subscription Plan—exhibiting their books at every one of our conference book exhibits.
Orion Anderson
Communications Director
Library of Social Science
Telephone: 718-393-1104
Fax: 413-832-8145
oanderson@libraryofsocialscience.com |