We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives
from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling
to brace itself for new ones, without knowing where it is going and
without trying to plan the itinerary. And everything important in
our lives - livelihood, human bonds, partnerships, neighbourhood,
goals worth pursuing and dangers to avoid - feels transient,
precarious, vulnerable, insecure, uncertain, risky. Is there a
connection between the shape of the world we inhabit and the way we
live our lives? Exploring that connection, and finding out just how
close it is, is the main concern of this book.
What is at stake in this inquiry is the possibility of
re-building the"'private/public" space, where private troubles and
public issues meet and where citizens engage in dialogue in order
to govern themselves. "Individual" liberty can only be a product of
"collective" work, it can only be collectively secured and
guaranteed. And yet today we are moving towards a "privatization"
of the means to secure individual liberty. If seen as a therapy for
the present ills, this is bound to produce effects of a most
sinister kind. The act of translating private troubles into public
issues is in danger of falling into disuse and being forgotten. The
argument of this book is that making the translation possible again
is an urgent and vital imperative for the renewal of politics
today.
This new book by Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and
creative thinkers of our time - will be of particular interest to
students of sociology, politics and social and political
theory.
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