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

44 Letters From the Liquid Modern World

Making the Familiar Unfamiliar

Does the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All?

Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies