Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw)

Wasted Lives

Modernity and Its Outcasts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements vi
Introduction 1
1 In the beginning was design
Or the waste of order-building 9
2 Are there too many of them?
Or the waste of economic progress 34
3 To each waste its dumping site
Or the waste of globalization 63
4 Culture of waste 94
Notes 134

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