Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw)

Broschiertes Buch

Wasted Lives

Modernity and Its Outcasts

Beschreibung

The production of a human wastea -- or more precisely, wasted lives, the a superfluousa populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts -- is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side--effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity.

Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780745631653
• ISBN-10: 0745631657
• Artikelnr.: 14788781

Rezensionen

"This is a rather brilliant, dense and chaotic meditation on ideas of waste in our time of what Bauman terms "liquid modernity" ... A sparkling and highly suggestive read." The Guardian