Zygmunt Bauman: 126 books

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the leading figures in contemporary social thought. His work ranges across issues of ethics, culture and politics. It never forgets that social thought ought to help men and women make sense of their lives and aspire towards something different. His books and essays always...

"Ich shoppe, also bin ich …" – so fasst Zygmunt Bauman den Wandel unserer Gesellschaft zusammen, die sich von einer Gesellschaft der Produzenten in eine Gesellschaft der Konsumenten transformiert. In dieser Verbrauchergesellschaft werden die Individuen selbst zur Ware, sie müssen sich...

La felicità promessa dal progresso moderno è associata a un’esistenza priva di turbamenti, di inciampi, senza sforzo. Ma siamo proprio sicuri che questa sia felicità? Richiamando con emozione pensatori quali Johann Wolfgang von Goethe o Alexis de Tocqueville, Sigmund Freud o Max Scheler, Zygmunt...

Se vogliamo capire in che mondo viviamo e non sbagliare le mosse, interpretandolo con le categorie che abbiamo utilizzato in passato e che oggi non servono più, è opportuno leggere Modus vivendi di Zygmunt Bauman. Il libro è bellissimo. La condizione umana, dipinta come un inferno, invoca un'utopia...

Zygmunt Bauman, maestro del pensiero contemporaneo, teorico della 'modernità liquida', laico, incontra Stanisław Obirek, teologo, storico, ex gesuita. Due grandi intellettuali provenienti da percorsi diversi si confrontano per la prima volta sui grandi temi del rapporto tra Dio e l'uomo: sull'esperienza...

This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we grapple with the insecurity and uncertainty of liquid modernity, Bauman argues that our socio-political, cultural, professional, religious and sexual identities are undergoing a process of continual...

Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a remarkable work by all measures. Written by Zygmunt Bauman when he was still a professor in Poland, and originally intended for publication in 1968, it was suppressed by the Polish government in the wave of repression following the protests in March of that year....

Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the way we think about our world today. At the time of his death, Bauman was working on this short book, a conversation with the Italian journalist Thomas...

In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For Bauman, culture is a living, changing...

Il dono – oggetto materiale o metafora di uno stile di vita – è al centro delle più stimolanti riflessioni sull’essenza profonda dell’economia e della società, oltre che sulla natura stessa dell’uomo. L’opposizione tra un’idea di società basata sulla solidarietà e un mondo utilitaristico...

Zygmunt Bauman tritt mit seinen Beobachtungen und Analysen zur Zukunft Europas den Beweis an, dass Europa durchaus die Möglichkeiten hat, die gewaltigen Herausforderungen des einundzwanzigsten Jahrhunderts zu meistern. Er plädiert in seinen tief in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte verwurzelten...

Europa Líquida resulta de várias entrevistas feitas a Zygmunt Bauman por Giuliano Battiston e publicadas em Itália. Nestas entrevistas, o sociólogo reflete e propõe novas leituras, alicerçadas numa perspetiva ética, sobre as profundas e rápidas transformações provocadas pela globalização...

What's the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doubt in the minds of many. At a time when there is widespread scepticism about the value of sociology and of the social sciences generally, this short book by one of the world's leading thinkers offers...

Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely unmanageable, such as art, academia and creativity. Some...