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What is Modernity and Ambivalence about?
Introduction: The Quest for Order; 1 The Scandal of Ambivalence; 2 The Social Construction of Ambivalence; 3 The Self-construction of Ambivalence; 4 A Case Study in the Sociology of Assimilation I: Trapped in Ambivalence; 5 A Case Study in the Sociology of Assimilation II: The Revenge of Ambivalence; 6 The Privatization of Ambivalence; 7 Postmodernity, or Living with Ambivalence; Index;Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In this book Bauman argues that our postmodern age is the time for reconciliation with ambivalence, we must learn how to live in an incurably ambiguous world.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bauman, Zygmunt
- Publisher
- Wiley;Polity Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780745605739
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Social Science
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