Culture in a Liquid Modern World

Zygmunt Bauman, Lydia Bauman (Translated by)

ISBN: 978-0-7456-5355-6

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144 pages

July 2011, Polity

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Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time.
In this new book Bauman argues that, in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture seeks no longer to enlighten the people but to seduce them. The function of culture today is not to satisfy existing needs but to create new ones, while simultaneously ensuring that existing needs remain permanently unfulfilled.
Bauman retraces the history of the concept of culture and explores its fate in a world marked by the powerful new forces of globalization, migration and the intermingling of populations.
This will appeal to all undergraduate students and scholars of sociology, politics and cultural studies, as well as general readers interested in the changing nature and role of culture in contemporary societies.