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Postmodernity and Its Discontents is a book written by Zygmunt Bauman, published in 1997. It is considered a landmark in Bauman's studies on postmodernism . [ 1 ] (subscription required) [ 2 ] (subscription required) The title references Sigmund Freud 's 1930 book Civilization and Its Discontents .
Zygmunt Bauman (/ ˈ b aʊ m ə n /; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. [1] He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship .
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Bauman's most famous book, Modernity and the Holocaust, is an attempt to give a full account of the dangers of fear of "the stranger".Drawing upon Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno's books on totalitarianism and the Enlightenment, Bauman developed the argument that the Holocaust should not simply be considered to be an event in Jewish history, nor a regression to pre-modern barbarism.
Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds is a 2003 book by Zygmunt Bauman which discusses human relations in liquid modern (post-modern) world. The book is part of series of books written by Bauman, such as Liquid Life and Liquid Times.
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Zygmunt Bauman, who introduced the idea of liquid modernity, wrote that its characteristics are about the individual, namely increasing feelings of uncertainty and the privatization of ambivalence. It is a kind of chaotic continuation of modernity, where a person can shift from one social position to another in a fluid manner. Nomadism becomes ...
Bauman's argument was that allosemitism can represent a "radically ambivalent attitude" encompassing both philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism; [4] allosemitism is a form of proteophobia, fear and horror of things that defy clean-cut categories, not, like anti-Semitism, of a simple fear of the "other"; and that Judeophobia is diverse, and ...