Liquid Modernity / Edition 1

This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life - emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community - and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning. concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books and . Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today.