Zygmunt Bauman Livres

Ce livre récuse les lieux communs sur le génocide des juifs : tragédie interne à l'histoire juive, point culminant d'un antisémitisme allemand, accident de parcours inexplicable de la civilisation occidentale. Il analyse la rencontre unique entre des facteurs " normaux " du processus civilisateur et une forme particulière de criminalité. L'essai étudie tout spécialement la manière dont le génocide industriel calque ses procédures et ses dispositifs sur les schèmes de l'action bureaucratique rationnelle des pays développés. Analysant Auschwitz comme une extension du système industriel moderne, les criminels nazis comme des personnalités ordinaires saisies par la dynamique du processus exterminateur, ce livre travaille à situer le judéocide au cœur de la société moderne. Il va à l'encontre de la tendance, largement répandue, à l'exaltation narcissique de la souffrance juive. Nul doute qu'il suscite en France, comme dans tous les pays où il a été publié, une ample discussion.

Comment vivre ensemble dans un village global sans contrat social défini?

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.

A fatally ill woman is suffocated in her hospital bed. Her last visitor, Madeleine Reed, is accused of the crime. There are no witnesses. Madeleine cannot recall committing the murder and has no motive.

Pianist and author Keith Jacobsen tells the story of his lifelong passion for the piano as performer and teacher from early childhood in post-war Liverpool to the present day.

The last interview of one of the greatest social thinkers of our time--

The book explores the transition from a society focused on production to one centered on consumption, highlighting how this shift redefines poverty. Bauman argues that in a consumer-driven society, being poor is increasingly tied to one's ability to participate in consumer culture rather than merely unemployment. This change alters the experience of poverty and the potential solutions to alleviate it. The new edition includes updated insights and analyses, making it a vital resource for understanding contemporary social dynamics and challenges related to poverty.

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.

This book explores the chaotic state of our contemporary world, likening it to an open sea without direction or stability. It argues for a radical revision of democratic principles and social values, as existing ideologies fail to address our interconnected crises. The author emphasizes our existence in a transitional phase, akin to Babel, marked by uncertainty and randomness.

aeo A major new book by Zygmunt Bauman -- one of the most original and creative social thinkers writing today. aeo Bauman brings his distinctive approach to bear on a theme which he has not previously addressed in detail: the changing nature of politics in contemporary societies.