The individualized society /

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Author / Creator:Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017
Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2001.
Description:vi, 259 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7471788
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ISBN:0745625061 (alk. paper)
9780745625065 (alk. paper)
074562507X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780745625072 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Lives Told And Stories Lived
  • Part 1. The Way We Are
  • Chapter 1. The Rise And Fall Of Labour
  • Chapter 2. Local Orders, Global Chaos
  • Chapter 3. Freedom And Security: The Unfinished Story Of A Tempestuous Union
  • Chapter 4. Modernity And Clarity: The Story Of A Failed Conquest
  • Chapter 5. Am I My Brother's Keeper?
  • Chapter 6. United In Difference
  • Part 2. The Way We Think
  • Chapter 7. Critique - Privatized And Disarmed
  • Chapter 8. Progress: The Same And Different
  • Chapter 9. On Mass, Individuals, and Peg-Communities
  • Chapter 10. Education: Under, For And In Spite Of Postmodernity
  • Chapter 11. Excess: An Obituary
  • Chapter 12. Faith And Instant Gratification
  • Part 3. The Way We Act
  • Chapter 13. Does Love Need A Reason?
  • Chapter 14. Private Morality, Immoral World
  • Chapter 15. Democracy On Two Battlefronts
  • Chapter 16. Violence, Old and New
  • Chapter 17. On Postmodern Uses Of Sex
  • Chapter 18. Is There Life After Immortality?