Book, Liquid Modernity[LS]

In the classic book of his work — now in a new graphic design — sociologist Zygmunt Bauman examines how the transition from a “heavy” and “solid” modernity to a “light” and “liquid” modernity, infinitely more dynamic, took place. Zygmunt Bauman fulfills his mission as a sociologist here, clarifying how the transition to modernity occurred and helping us to rethink the concepts and cognitive schemes used to describe the individual human experience and its joint history. It is to this task that this book is dedicated. Analyzing five basic concepts that organize life in society — emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community — Bauman traces their successive forms and changes in meaning. Liquid modernity complements and concludes the analysis carried out by the author in Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics. Together, these three volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life.