Modernity and ambivalence

Author(s)

• Bauman, Zygmunt

Bibliographic Information

Modernity and ambivalence

Zygmunt Bauman

Polity Press, 1991

• : pbk

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• Modernity and ambivalence

  1991.

  Maruzen eBook Library

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

According to Bauman, modernity promised to imbue human experience with a clarity and transparency through the rigorous application of reason. This did not happen. The undermining of traditional faiths was not succeeded by a creed of rationality which gained general acceptance in creating a new set of values. This book attempts to explain the reasons for this failure.

Table of Contents

• The scandal of ambivalence
• social construction of ambivalence
• self-construction of ambivalence
• a case study in the sociology of assimilation - trapped in ambivalence, revenge of ambivalence
• privatization of ambivalence
• post-modernity, or living with ambivalence.

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Details

• NCID: BA11586693
• ISBN:
  • 0745605737
  • 0745612423
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 285 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : CB430
  • DC20 : 305.892/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Civilization, Modern -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Modernism (Aesthetics)
  • LCSH : Ambivalence
  • LCSH : Postmodernism
  • LCSH : Jews -- Cultural assimilation
  • LCSH : Jews -- Intellectual life