ISBN: 9780674033948

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in l… Mehr…

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that ordinary people can understand-about problems they feel ill equipped to solve. This book is no dry treatise but is instead what Bauman calls "a report from a battlefield," part of the struggle to find new and adequate ways of thinking about the world in which we live. Rather than searching for solutions to what are perhaps the insoluble problems of the modern world, Bauman proposes that we reframe the way we think about these problems. In an era of routine travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs that aid our thinking about the world have become an obstacle.Bauman seeks to liberate us from the thinking that renders us hopeless in the face of our own domineering governments and threats from unknown forces abroad. He shows us we can give up belief in a hierarchical arrangement of states and powers. He challenges members of the "knowledge class" to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society. Gracefully, provocatively, Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. As Bauman notes, quoting Vaclav Havel, "hope is not a prognostication." It is, rather, alongside courage and will, a mundane, common weapon that is too seldom used.; PDF; Politics, Philosphy & Religion > Philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy, Harvard University Press<

ISBN: 9780674033948

Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. In an era of routine travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs that ai… Mehr…

Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. In an era of routine travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs that aid our thinking about the world have become an obstacle. He challenges members of the "knowledge class" to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society. Harvard University Press Ethics & Moral Philosophy 9780674033511 DE,GB,US,ES,IT,FR,MX English Philosophy, Harvard University Press<

ISBN: 9780674033948

by Zygmunt Bauman, PRINT ISBN: 9780674027800 E-TEXT ISBN: 9780674033948 Additional ISBNs: 0674027809, 0674261925, 0674033515, 9780674027800, 9780674261921, 9780674033511 Harvard Universit… Mehr…

by Zygmunt Bauman, PRINT ISBN: 9780674027800 E-TEXT ISBN: 9780674033948 Additional ISBNs: 0674027809, 0674261925, 0674033515, 9780674027800, 9780674261921, 9780674033511 Harvard University Press eBook Other pricing structure might be available at vitalsource.com., Harvard University Press<

ISBN: 9780674033948

Harvard University Press Ethics & Moral Philosophy , UK,GB,DE,ES,FR,IT,US,CA,MX,AU,NZ 20090701 English Philosophy, Harvard University Press

2009, ISBN: 9780674033948

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