Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In this book, now available in paperback, Bauman argues that our postmodern age is the time for reconciliation with ambivalence, we must learn how to live in an incurably ambiguous world.
Table of Content
Introduction.
1. The Scandal of Ambivalence.
2. Social Construction of Ambivalence.
3. Self-Construction of Ambivalence.
4. A Case Study in the Sociology of Assimilation (I):.
Trapped in Ambivalence.
5. A Case Study in the Sociology of Assimilation (II):.
Revenge of Ambivalence.
6. Privatization of Ambivalence.
7. Postmodernity, or Living with Ambivalence.
About the author
Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw. He was the winner of the prestigious European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and the Social Sciences, 1989, he was also awarded the Theodor W. Adorno Prize for 1998.
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