Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds PDF

By Zygmunt Bauman

ISBN-10: 0745624898

ISBN-13: 9780745624891

This ebook is ready the critical determine of our modern, 'liquid modern' occasions - the guy or lady without bonds, and especially without any of the fastened or sturdy bonds that might enable the trouble of self-definition and self-assertion to come back to a leisure. Having no everlasting bonds, the denizen of our liquid sleek society needs to tie no matter what bonds they could to have interaction with others, utilizing their very own wits, ability and commitment. yet none of those bonds are bound to final. in addition, they need to be tied loosely so they can be untied back, speedy and as without difficulty as attainable, whilst situations switch - as they definitely will in our liquid glossy society, over and over.

The uncanny frailty of human bonds, the sensation of lack of confidence that frailty evokes, and the conflicting wants to tighten the bonds but preserve them unfastened, are the imperative topics of this crucial new booklet via Zygmunt Bauman, some of the most unique and influential social thinkers of our time. it will likely be of significant curiosity to scholars and students in sociology and within the social sciences and arts usually, and it'll entice a person attracted to the altering nature of human relationships.

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Cell phones signal, materially and symbolically, the ultimate liberation from place. Being near to a socket is no longer a condition of 'staying connected'. Travellers may delete from their calculation of gains and losses the differences between 60 61 IN AND OUT OF THE TOOLBOX OF SOCIALITY departing and staying, distance and proximity, civilization and wilderness. Much software and hardware has been dumped on computer ' graveyards since the unforgettable Peter Sellers tried in vain (in Hal Ashby's film of 1979, Being There) to switch off a posse of nuns with the help of a TV remote control.

Flying lightly is mirth, rudderless flying is distress. Change is blissful, volatility annoying. The unbearable lightness of sex? Volkmar Sigusch is a practising therapist; daily, he meets the casualties of 'pure sex'. He records their complaints- and the list of grievances calling for the expert's intervention lengthens unstoppably. His summaries of findings are as sombre as they are sober. IN AND OUT OF THE TOOLBOX OF SOCIALITY Technical concerns square ill with emotions. Concentration on rerformance leaves no time or room for ecstasy.

57 IN AND OUT OF THE TOOLBOX OF SOCIALITY Communltas for sale When the quality lets you down, you seek salvation in quantity. When duration is not on, it is the rapidity of change that may redeem you. If you feel ill at ease in that fluid world and are lost among the ' profusion of contradictory road signs that seem to move as if on castors, visit one or some of those expert counsellors for whose services there has never been a greater demand and of whom there has never been a richer supply. Soothsayers and astrologers of past ages used to tell their clients what their predecided, unswerving and implacable fate would be regardless of what they might do or refrain from doing; the experts of our fluid modern era would most certainly pass the buck back to their confused and perplexed clients.

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