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44 Letters from the Liquid Modern World by Zymunt Bauman
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we fear. And we, the inhabitants of this world in flux, feel the n ...Show more
Aboriginal Darwin by Toni Bauman, Samantha Wells
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
To most visitors and locals, Darwin is a vibrant, tropical city in the Top End. Although not always obvious, Darwin is also a living Aboriginal cultural landscape. There are as many ways of seeing Aboriginal Darwin as there are Aboriginal people.Aboriginal Darwin peels back layers to show the rich herit ...Show more
Community : Seeking Safety in an Insecure World by Zygmunt Bauman
$34.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasures which we would like to experience but see ...Show more
Culture in a Liquid Modern World by Zygmunt Bauman; Lydia Bauman (Translator)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In its original formulation, 'culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating 'the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture has lost its missionary role and has become a mean ...Show more
DOES ETHICS HAVE A CHANCE IN A WORLD OF CONSUMERS by Bauman Zygmunt
$44.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Ser.
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that ordinary people can understand--about problems they feel ill equipped to solve. This book is no dry trea ...Show more
DOES ETHICS HAVE A CHANCE IN A WORLD OF CONSUMERS by Bauman Zygmunt
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Ser.
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that ordinary people can understand--about problems they feel ill equipped to solve. This book is no dry trea ...Show more
Does the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All? by Zygmunt Bauman
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
It is commonly assumed that the best way to help the poor out of their misery is to allow the rich to get richer, that if the rich pay less taxes then all the rest of us will be better off, and that in the final analysis the richness of the few benefits us all. And yet these commonly held beliefs are fl ...Show more
Liquid Fear by Zygmunt Bauman
$40.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings could at last take control of their lives and tame the uncontrolled forces of the social and natural worlds. And yet, at the dawn of the twenty-first centur ...Show more
Liquid Love : On the Frailty of Human Bonds by Zygmunt Bauman
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, 'liquid modern' times - the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the denizen of our l ...Show more
Liquid Modernity by BAUMAN
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 globa ...Show more
Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation by Zygmunt Bauman
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Polity Conversations Series
'Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar and accepted sight in public plac ...Show more
Liquid Times : Living in an Age of Uncertainty by Zygmunt Bauman
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 refere ...Show more