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State of Crisis
Zygmunt Bauman
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Hardcover. Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward. In our increasingly globalized world, states have been stripped of much of their power to shape the course of events. Many of our problems are globally produced but the volume of power at the disposal of individual nation-states is simply not sufficient to cope ... Read more
Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward. In our increasingly globalized world, states have been stripped of much of their power to shape the course of events. Many of our problems are globally produced but the volume of power at the disposal of individual nation-states is simply not sufficient to cope ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745680941
SKU
V9780745680941
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99-50
About Zygmunt Bauman
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. His many books have become international bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages. CARLO BORDONI is a scholar, essayist and journalist, specialising in the sociology of culture. He has taught sociology at the Universities of Pisa and Florence, the Oriental Institute in ... Read more
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