Книги автора: Zygmunt Bauman

Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalis…

The term ‘collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer t…

We are spurred into action by our troubles and fears; but all too often our action fails to address …

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in som…

More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique …

'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a com…

This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we g…

In this lucid, stimulating and original book, Zygmunt Bauman and Tim May explore the underlying assu…

'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid …

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focuse…

With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consu…

This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, ‘liquid modern’ times – the man or woman …

Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in…

The production of ‘human waste’ – or more precisely, wasted lives, the ‘superfluous’ populations of …

Society is under siege – under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structu…

Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our contro…

The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current …

In our individualized society we are all artists of life – whether we know it or not, will it or not…

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Mod…