In Search of Politics - Softcover

Bauman, Zygmunt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745621724 ISBN 13: 9780745621722

Publisher: Polity, 1999

Synopsis

We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself for new ones, without knowing where it is going and without trying to plan the itinerary. And everything important in our lives – livelihood, human bonds, partnerships, neighbourhood, goals worth pursuing and dangers to avoid – feels transient, precarious, vulnerable, insecure, uncertain, risky. Is there a connection between the shape of the world we inhabit and the way we live our lives? Exploring that connection, and finding out just how close it is, is the main concern of this book.

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Review:

"With In Search of Politics, the prolific Zygmunt Bauman joins other European social theorists in seeking to illuminate the current political landscape...The account is at times persuasive and never less than eloquent" Sam Pryke, The Times Higher Education Supplement -- Sam Pryke, The Times Higher Education Supplement

About the Author:

Zygmunt Bauman Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw. He was awarded the Theodor W. Adorno Prize for 1998.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0745621724
• ISBN 13: 9780745621722
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220