Liquid Times

Living in an Age of Uncertainty

Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw)

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English

Polity Press
03 January 2007

Sociology & anthropology

The passage from ‘solid’ to ‘liquid’ modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to solidify and cannot serve as frames of reference for human actions and long-term life plans, so individuals have to find other ways to organise their lives. They have to splice together an unending series of short-term projects and episodes that don’t add up to the kind of sequence to which concepts like ‘career’ and ‘progress’ could meaningfully be applied. Such fragmented lives require individuals to be flexible and adaptable – to be constantly ready and willing to change tactics at short notice, to abandon commitments and loyalties without regret and to pursue opportunities according to their current availability. In liquid modernity the individual must act, plan actions and calculate the likely gains and losses of acting (or failing to act) under conditions of endemic uncertainty.

Zygmunt Bauman’s brilliant writings on liquid modernity have altered the way we think about the contemporary world. In this short book he explores the sources of the endemic uncertainty which shapes our lives today and, in so doing, he provides the reader with a brief and accessible introduction to his highly original account, developed at greater length in his previous books, of life in our liquid modern times.

By: Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw)
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 218g
ISBN: 9780745639864
ISBN 10: 0745639860
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 03 January 2007
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Bravely into the Hotbed of Uncertainties 1 1 Liquid Modern Life and its Fears 5 2 Humanity on the Move 27 3 State, Democracy and the Management of Fears 55 4 Out of Touch Together 71 5 Utopia in the Age of Uncertainty 94 Notes 111

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw.

Reviews for Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty

"""Liquid Times and Living on Borrowed Times offer deep insights into post-modern life. Specifically, it exposes the essential social and philosophical changes that lie at the heart of the conditions that led to the global financial crisis ... the ideas in these books are fascinating."" Satyajit Das, Willmot.com"