Book, Art of life, A[LS]

What is happiness? Is it possible to achieve it definitively? Liquid modern society expects us to take care of giving meaning and shape to our lives, judges us by results and also makes us think that the art of life has happiness as its objective. The book by the great contemporary thinker Zygmunt Bauman addresses these perplexing questions and is a brilliant exposition of the conditions – and limits – that influence our life projects. "A clear and objective thinker, but never impersonal." —O Globo “[Bauman’s] argument ranges, with human irony, from Fukuyama and business theories to Seneca and the invention of MySpace, from Sarkozy and Amós Oz to chaos theory, from Nietzsche to Levinas.” —The Guardian