Book, Life on credit: conversations with Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo[LS]

With his usual boldness, Zygmunt Bauman analyzes some of today's most pressing moral and political issues. Instigated by intelligent questions from Mexican journalist and researcher Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo, the sociologist talks, among other topics, about the recent global financial crisis, religious fundamentalism, and even phenomena that he had never commented on, such as genetic engineering and human cloning. The author outlines the current world scenario and explains how we moved from a society of producers to one of consumers. In this panorama, men and women, old or young, become a true race of debtors. And it leads us to reflect on how everything – from international terrorism to the cosmetics industry, from the decline of the State to the threat of global warming – testifies to the fact that our lives, too, are lived on credit.