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Zygmunt Bauman - Culture in a Liquid Modern World - 9780745653556 - V9780745653556
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Culture in a Liquid Modern World

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Description for Culture in a Liquid Modern World Paperback. * Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time. * In this new book Bauman argues that, in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture seeks no longer to enlighten the people but to seduce them. Translator(s): Bauman, Lydia. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 188.
In its original formulation, culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture has lost its missionary role and has become a means of seduction: it seeks no longer to enlighten the people but to seduce them. The function of culture today is not to satisfy existing needs but to create new ones, while simultaneously ensuring that existing needs remain permanently unfulfilled. Culture today likens itself to a giant department store where the shelves are overflowing with desirable goods that are changed on a daily basis - just long enough to stimulate desires whose gratification is perpetually postponed. In this new book, Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most brilliant and influential social thinkers of our time - retraces the peregrinations of the concept of culture and examines its fate in a world marked by the powerful new forces of globalization, migration and the intermingling of populations. He argues that Europe has a particularly important role to play in revitalizing our understanding of culture, precisely because Europe, with its great diversity of peoples, languages and histories, is the space where the Other is always one's neighbour and where each is constantly called upon to learn from everyone else.

Product Details

Publisher
Polity Press
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
187g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745653556
SKU
V9780745653556
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About Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University of Leeds.

Reviews for Culture in a Liquid Modern World
Some acerbic interpretations of a long-contested word. Steven Poole, The Guardian

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