In our individualized society we are all artists of life - whether
we know it or not, will it or not and like it or not, by decree of
society if not by our own choice. In this society we are all
expected, rightly or wrongly, to give our lives purpose and form by
using our own skills and resources, even if we lack the tools and
materials with which artists' studios need to be equipped for the
artist's work to be conceived and executed. And we are praised or
censured for the results - for what we have managed or failed to
accomplish and for what we have achieved and lost.
In our liquid modern society we are also taught to believe that the
purpose of the art of life should be and can be happiness - though
it's not clear what happiness is, the images of a happy state keep
changing and the state of happiness remains most of the time
something yet-to-be-reached.
This new book by Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and
influential social thinkers writing today - is not a book of
designs for the art of life nor a 'how to' book: the construction
of a design for life and the way it is pursued is and cannot but be
an individual responsibility and individual accomplishment. It is
instead a brilliant account of conditions under which our
designs-for-life are chosen, of the constraints that might be
imposed on their choice and of the interplay of design, accident
and character that shape their implementation. Last but not least,
it is a study of the ways in which our society - the liquid modern,
individualized society of consumers - influences (but does not
determine) the way we construct and narrate our life
trajectories.
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