Born Liquid - Hardcover

Bauman, Zygmunt; Leoncini, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509530673 ISBN 13: 9781509530670

Publisher: Polity, 2018

Synopsis

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 Leoncini, exactly sixty years his junior. In these exchanges with Leoncini, Bauman considers, for the first time, the world of those born after the early 1980s, the individuals who were ‘born liquid’ and feel at home in a society of constant flux. As always, taking his cue from contemporary issues and debates, Bauman examines this world by discussing what are often regarded as its most ephemeral features. The transformation of the body – tattoos, cosmetic surgery, hipsters – aggression, bullying, the Internet, online dating, gender transitions and changing sexual preferences are all analysed with characteristic brilliance in this concise and topical book, which will be of particular interest to young people, natives of the liquid modern world, as well as to Bauman’s many readers of all generations.

About this title

About the Author

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds.
Thomas Leoncini is an Italian journalist and writer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509530673
• ISBN 13: 9781509530670
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100