Книги автора: Zygmunt Bauman

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

It is commonly assumed that the best way to help the poor out of their misery is to allow the rich t…

This is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 in the fo…

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

Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'tab…

Contemporary understanding of human subjectivity has come a long way since the Cartesian 'thinking t…

In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken …

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

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. …

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

‘Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before,…

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

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

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

What is the role of education in a world where we no longer have a clear vision of the future and wh…

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

Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Tod…

In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theolo…

Widely acclaimed insight on the human condition, updated to view modern issues through a sociologica…