Books by Zygmunt Bauman
44 Letters from the Liquid Modern World
by Zygmunt Bauman
I’m a fan of Bauman’s books in general. He talks about advanced capitalism and what’s wrong with it, how it can’t carry on like it is. This one is 44 letters about a wide range of issues, so you can pick and choose.
Postmodern Ethics
by Zygmunt Bauman
He talks about care for the other and about being oriented towards the needs of other people. I am very interested in the question of how to live virtuously and I think sociologists sometimes shy away from that issue. Postmodern Ethics is a sociologist battling with this issue.
Modernity and Ambivalence
by Zygmunt Bauman
The argument in the book is simply that modernity in its will to order and reason had waged a war on ambivalence, on the other, on outsiders and on contingency. I likewise think that architects are waging a war on contingency. They can’t stand dirt for example. All those classic shots of architects’ houses, where everything is neatly lined up, are a symptom of this war on ambivalence. This architectural control is what Bauman puts into the context of a wider trend in society.
Interviews where books by Zygmunt Bauman were recommended
The best books on The Context of Architecture, recommended by Jeremy Till
Architecture depends at the building stage on money and politics, and later on users, time and weather. Jeremy Till picks five books to allow you behind the scenes of the building sites.
The best books on Disability, recommended by Tom Shakespeare
Tom Shakespeare, a professor of disability research at Norwich Medical School, says early books on disability focused too much on physical impairment, and not enough on the stigma attached to it.
The best books on Modern Britain, recommended by Danny Dorling
From the North-South divide to middle-class insecurity and the correlation of petrol use and obesity, Danny Dorling with five books on what makes Britain British.
