Все книги автора Zygmunt Bauman

«Identitat» és un concepte elusiu però central i omnipresent en tota mena de discursos sobre l'...

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

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

In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation be...

Unde malum from where does evil come? That is the question that has plagued humankind ever since Eve...

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

Der Holocaust wurde inmitten der modernen Gesellschaft konzipiert und durchgeführt, in einer hochent...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinc...

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

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

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

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

What's the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doub...

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

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

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

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

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