Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our
time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness
of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that
ordinary people can understand--about problems they feel ill
equipped to solve. This book is no dry treatise but is instead what
Bauman calls "a report from a battlefield," part of the struggle to
find new and adequate ways of thinking about the world in which we
live. Rather than searching for solutions to what are perhaps the
insoluble problems of the modern world, Bauman proposes that we
reframe the way we think about these problems. In an era of routine
travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs
that aid our thinking about the world have become an obstacle.
Bauman seeks to liberate us from the thinking that renders us
hopeless in the face of our own domineering governments and threats
from unknown forces abroad. He shows us we can give up belief in a
hierarchical arrangement of states and powers. He challenges
members of the "knowledge class" to overcome their estrangement
from the rest of society. Gracefully, provocatively, Bauman urges
us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging
modern world. As Bauman notes, quoting Vaclav Havel, "hope is not a
prognostication." It is, rather, alongside courage and will, a
mundane, common weapon that is too seldom used.
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