Liquid Modernity
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"Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?" --Paul Valery, epigraph in Liquid Modernity (2000) by Zygmunt Bauman "As Harvie Ferguson put it recently in his inimitable way, Individuality in the postmodern world all distinctions become fluid, boundaries dissolve, and everything can just as well appear to be its opposite; irony becomes the perpetual sense that things could be somewhat different, though never fundamentally or radically different." --Liquid Modernity (2000) is a book by Zygmunt Bauman. "One sometimes hears the opinion that contemporary society I appearing under the name of late modern or postmodern society, Ulrich Beck's society of 'second modernity' or, as I prefer to call it, the 'society of fluid modernity') is inhospitable to critique."--Liquid Modernity (2000) is a book by Zygmunt Bauman. |
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Liquid Modernity (2000) is a book by Zygmunt Bauman on late modernity.
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In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history.
This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life - emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community - and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning. Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics. Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today.
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Index absentee landlords 13 Adorno, Theodore W. 24, 27, 41-4 aesthetic of consumption 1 58-60 Agar, Herbert Sebastian 19 Arendt, Hannah 191 Aristotle 54, 1 77 Arnold, Matthew 19 Atkinson, Paul 86 Attali, Jacques 1 38, 153, 1 67, 209 authority (in life politics) 64, 67-8 Bacon, Francis 168 Bairoc, Paul 140 Bakhtin, Mikhail 98 Barth, Frederick 1 77 Bateson, Gregory 47, 198 Beattie, Melody 65 Beck, Ulrich 5, 23, 31, 33, 37, 1 35, 210-11, 215 Beck -Gernsheim, Elisa beth 31 Bell, Daniel 1 1 5, 131 Benjamin, Walter 1 14, 1 32 Benko, George 102, 1 09 Bentham, Jeremy 9, 27, 85 Berlin, Isaiah 51, 1 73 Bianchi, Marina 63 Bierce, Ambrose 131 Big Brother 26, 30, 52 Blair, Tony 70 body and community 1 82-4 Boorstin, Daniel J. 67 Bourdieu, Pierre 1 35, 148, 155, 1 60, 1 62, 1 71, 1 93, 212-1 5 Brook-Rose, Christine 208 BUlluel, Luis 165 bureaucracy 25, 59 Butler, Samuel 65 Calvino, Italo 119 Camus, Albert 82 Carlyle, Thomas 4 casino culture 159 Castoriadis, Cornelius 22, 24, 212, 215 Certea u, Michel de 1 1 3 chat-shows 69, 86 citizenship 36, 39-40 civility 95-6, 1 04-5 Clair, Jean 1 90 226 Index Cohen, Daniel 58, 1 1 6-1 7, 140 Cohen, Phil 1 82 Cohen, Philippe 1 71 common cause 35-6, 200 communism 57 communitarianism 32, 37, 1 08, 1 69-73, 1 82 community 92, 1 00-6 confidence 1 32, 135, 165-6 consumerism 74, 80, 83-9, 158, 1 65 Conway, David 19 Coser, Louis 146 Crick, Bernard 1 77 critical theory 23, 26-8, 40, 48-50 Crosswell, Tim 113 Crozier, Michel 1 1 9, 122 Davis, Mike 93 Debord, Guy 128, 133 Delacampagne, Christian 207 delay of gratification 157-9 Deleuze, Giles 21, 83, 1 93 dependency, mutual 1 0, 13, 120, 145-9 deregulation 5, 29, 135, 1 50 Derrida, Jacques 206-7 Descartes, Rene 1 1 3, 1 68 desire vs. wish 75-7, 1 59-60 Diderot, Denis 21 disembedding 32-7, 141, 1 69 Disengagement 11, 14, 40, 120-3, 128, 149, 151, 188 Drucker, Peter 30, 1 34 Durkheim, Emile 20, 1 83 Elias, Norbert 30-1, 1 93 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 209 Engels, Friedrich 3 estates vs. classes 6, 32-3 ethnic cleansing vs. Holocaust 1 97 exile 208 exterritoriality of power 1 1 , 40, 149 Ferguson, Harvie 75-6, 87 Feuchtwanger, Lion 18 fitness vs. health 77-80 Flew, Anthony 124 flexibility of labour 150-2 fluidity of bonds 2-3, 8 Flusty, Steven 101 Fonda, Jane 66-7 Ford, Henry 58, 1 3 1-3, 144 Fordism 25, 56-63, 84, 89, 133 Foucault, Michel 9, 27, 85, 99 Franklin, Benjamin 1 12 freedom 5-7, 1 5-21, 25, 34, 49, 51, 87, 120, 141, 1 70, 1 82 Freud, Sigmund 1 7, 31 Fromm, Erich 21 Gates, Bill 124 Giddens, Anthony 21, 23, 89, 1 92 Girard, Rene 194-8 Glassner, Barry 81 good society 62, 64, 70, 1 06, 1 67 Goytisolo, Juan 205-7 Gramsci, Antonio 56 Granowetter, Mark 149 Grotius, Hugo 1 87 Guattari, Felix 21, 83, 193 Habermas, Jiirgen 69 Hazeldon, George 91-2, 1 09 heavy vs. light capitalism 25, 56-9, 63, 1 14-1 8, 126, 146, 1 67 Hobbes, Thomas 30 Hobsbawm, Eric 171, 192 Horkheimer, Max 24, 27, 43 human rights 36 Huxley, Aldous 53-4, 57, 64, 201 Ibn Khaldoun 12 identity 82-7, 90, 1 02, 1 06-8, 1 78, 181 Illich, Ivan 80 immortality 126-9 individual, de jure and de facto 3 8-41 , 49-5 1, 1 79, 200-1 individualization 29-38, 41, 52, 148, 1 70 Jelyazkova, Antonina 191 Jowitt, Ken 133 Kant, Immanuel 111 , 1 68 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald 1 12 Kissinger, Henry 1 89-90 Kociatkiewicz, Jerzy 1 03 Kojeve, Alexander 45-7 Kolakowski, Leszek 1 74-5 Kostera, Monika 1 03 Kristeva, Julia 213 Kundera, Milan 169, 202 Lasch, Christopher 85 leaders vs. examples 64-8, 71-2 Lenin, Vladimir 57 Lessing, Ephraim 28 Levi-Strauss, Claude 101, 1 54, 1 75 Lewin, Leif 127 life politics 1, 29, 39, 5 1-2, 65, 1 63 Lipietz, Alan 56 Luhmann, Niklas 203 Luttwak, Edward N. 1 88-9 Lyotard, Fran<;ois 1 34 MacLaughlin, Jim 1 2, 1 87 Maffesoli, Michel 209 Index Man, Henri de 56 Marcuse, Herbert 1 6, 22 Marx, Karl 3-4, 55, 141-2 Mathiesen, Thomas 85-6 Melosik, Zbyszko 62 Michaud, Yves 90 Mill, John Stuart 30 Mills, Wright C. 65, 85 mismeeting 95 modernization 28-9, 31, 38 Murray, Charles 19 Musset, Alfred de 204 nation-state 12, 1 73-6, 1 85-6 Nietzsche, Friedrich 28 nomads vs. settled 227 communities 13, 1 87-8, 198-9 Offe, Claus 4-5, 33 O'Neill, John 152 Orwell, George 26-8, 53-7, 69, 201 Panopticon 9-1 1 , 26, 85-6 Parenti, Michel 74 Paterson, Orlando 171 patriotism vs. nationalism 1 74-8 Peyrefitte, Alain 1 32, 165 Plato 44, 54 Polanyi, Karl 121, 141 postulated community 169-71 power flow 1 1-14, 40 'precarization' 1 60-4 progress 1 30-2 public space 40, 51, 69-72 Ratzel, Friedrich 1 87 Reich, Robert 15 1-2, 166 republican model 1 78 reserve army of labour 145 revolution 5 risk 33, 2 1 1-12 Ritzer, George 71, 97, 99 228 Index Roman, Joel 36 Rosanvallon, Pierre 214 routinization 1 15-16, 119, 143 Ruelle, David 136 Rutherford, Jonathan 6 safety 1 70-3 St Augustine 1 75 Scheler, Max 210 Schopenhauer, Arthur 17 Schulze, Gerhard 61 Schlitz, Alfred 39 Seabrook, Jeremy 85, 88 Sennett, Richard 5, 21, 37, 94-5, 99-100, 105-6, 123-4, 146-9, 152, 1 79, 1 80 Shields, Rob 1 1 3 shopping 73-4, 80-4, 89 Sidgwick, Henry 19 Silverman, David 86 Simmel, Georg 111 Skacel, Jan 202 Steiner, George 1 59, 207 strangers 107-8 Strauss, Leo 23, 35, 45-7 Szkudlarek, Tomasz 62 Taylor, Frederic 147 territorial conquest 1 14-15 Thompson, E. P. 147 Thompson, Michael 125 Thrift, Nigel 54, 1 54, 1 66 Tonnies, Ferdinand 1 71 Toqueville, Alexis de 3, 36, 142, 213 totalitarianism 25-6 Touraine, Alain 22, 1 78 Tullock, Gordon 129 Tusa, John 159 Uusitalo, Liisa 97 Valery, Paul 1 value-rationality 60-1 Vernet, Daniel 1 90 Vetlesen, Arne J ohan 1 96-8 Viroli, Maurizio 1 74 Walpole, Horace 54 war 12, 1 87-96 Weber, Max 4, 25, 28, 59-60, 1 1 3, 123, 157, 169, 1 93 welfare state 145 Williams, Raymond 1 69 Wittgenstein, Ludwig 43, 201 Woody Allen 36, 124 work ethic 158 Yack, Bernard 1 74-5 Young, Jock 1 71-2 Zukin, Sharon 92-3, 1 06
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