Title Statements
- Full title :Postmodernity and its discontents / Zygmunt Bauman
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1997
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Polity Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1997
The Physical Object
- Description:221 s
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0745617913, 9780745617916, 0745617905, 9780745617909
- oclc:ocn469689904
- Dewey Decimal:303.4
Table of Contents
Introduction: Discontents -- Modern and Postmodern. 1. The Dream of Purity. 2. Making and Unmaking of Strangers. 3. The Strangers of the Consumer Era: from the Welfare State to Prison. 4. Morality Begins at Home: or the Rocky Road to Justice. 5. Parvenu and Pariah -- the Heroes and Victims of Modernity. 6. Tourists and Vagabonds -- the Heroes and Victims of Postmodernity. 7. Postmodern Art, or the Impossibility of the Avant-garde. 8. On the Meaning of Art and the Art of Meaning. 9. Culture as Consumer Co-operative. 10. On the Postmodern Deployment of Sex: Foucault's History of Sexuality Revisited. 11. Immortality, Postmodern Version. 12. Postmodern Religion? 13. On Communitarianism and Human Freedom, or How to Square the Circle. Afterword: The Last word -- and it Belongs to Freedom. Notes. Index.
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