Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In this book, now available in paperback, Bauman argues that our postmodern age is the time for reconciliation with ambivalence, we must learn how to live in an incurably ambiguous world.

гуманитарные и общественные науки

социология

Modernity and Ambivalence

On Education. Conversations with Riccardo Mazzeo

Of God and Man

Practices of Selfhood

On the World and Ourselves

Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies

Modernity and the Holocaust

Postmodernity and its Discontents

The Art of Life