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Culture in a Liquid Modern World
Zygmunt Bauman
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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