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Liquid Evil, Living with TINA (Paperback)
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Liquid Evil, Living with TINA (Paperback)
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Loot Price R515
Discovery Miles 5 150
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There is nothing new about evil; it has been with us since time
immemorial. But there is something new about the kind of evil that
characterizes our contemporary liquid-modern world. The evil that
characterized earlier forms of solid modernity was concentrated in
the hands of states claiming monopolies on the means of coercion
and using the means at their disposal to pursue their ends ends
that were at times horrifically brutal and barbaric. In our
contemporary liquid-modern societies, by contrast, evil has become
altogether more pervasive and at the same time less visible. Liquid
evil hides in the seams of the canvass woven daily by the
liquid-modern mode of human interaction and commerce, conceals
itself in the very tissue of human cohabitation and in the course
of its routine and day-to-day reproduction. Evil lurks in the
countless black holes of a thoroughly deregulated and privatized
social space in which cutthroat competition and mutual estrangement
have replaced cooperation and solidarity, while forceful
individualization erodes the adhesive power of inter-human bonds.
In its present form evil is hard to spot, unmask and resist. It
seduces us by its ordinariness and then jumps out without warning,
striking seemingly at random. The result is a social world that is
comparable to a minefield: we know it is full of explosives and
that explosions will happen sooner or later but we have no idea
when and where they will occur. In this new book, the sequel to
their acclaimed work Moral Blindness Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas
Donskis guide the reader through this new terrain in which evil has
become both more ordinary and more insidious, threatening to strip
humanity of its dreams, alternative projects and powers of dissent
at the very time when they are needed most.
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