"The Danish philosopher K. E. Løgstrup is best known in the Anglo-American world for his original work in ethics, primarily in The Ethical Demand (original Danish edition, 1956). Løgstrup continued to write extensively on issues in ethics and phenomenology throughout his life, and extracts from some of his later writings are now also available in translation in Beyond the Ethical Demand. In Concern for the Other: The Ethics of K. E. Løgs ..."
"For the past twenty years, Tikkun magazine has advanced liberal ideals, featuring articles on such important issues as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jewish culture, and the intersection of religion and politics in the United States. Tikkun Reader is a collection of the best of Tikkun magazine since its inception, providing the most cohesive collection of writings articulating the progressive, left-leaning religious perspective on so ..."
Culture and Art Selected Writings, Volume 1 by ZygmuntBauman 280 Pages, Published 2021 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4546-9, ISBN: 1-5095-4546-8
"Why we have lost the capacity to love, why we find it hard to make moral
judgements: he investigates the social and personal aspects of ... Zygmunt
Bauman described his task as that of making the familiar unfamiliar and the
unfamiliar familiar."
"Interviews with leading thinkers on the crisis of violence in contemporary politics, history, media, and culture.Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics ..."
"We are living in an age of crisis―or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to preserve them. For critics of the status ..."
"... linked from various parts of the world. There was enormous interest. I believe
there could not be a better augury for the long voyage undertaken by this little
book. ALEKSANDRA KANIA BAUMAN With the demise of my individual body,
bodily ..."
Babel by ZygmuntBauman, Ezio Mauro 180 Pages, Published 2018 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-0761-0, ISBN: 1-5095-0761-2
"'On the tram', as translated by Willa Muir and Edwin Muir and published in The
Collected Short Stories of Franz Kafka (London, 1988), p. 388. 'The new
advocate', in The Collected Short Stories of Franz Kafka, p. 415. Lippmann,
Public Opinion ..."
"We are living in an age of crisis―or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to preserve them. For critics of the status ..."
Retrotopia(1st Edition) by ZygmuntBauman Hardcover, 180 Pages, Published 2017 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-1531-8, ISBN: 1-5095-1531-3
"We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state ? a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler. But while we have lost our faith in utopias of all hues, the human aspiration that made this vision so compelling has not died. Instead it is re-emerging tod ..."
Retrotopia by ZygmuntBauman 180 Pages, Published 2017 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-1533-2, ISBN: 1-5095-1533-X
"Such is retrotopia, the contours of which are examined by Zygmunt Bauman in this sharp dissection of our contemporary romance with the past."
Retrotopia by ZygmuntBauman 180 Pages, Published 2017 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-1535-6, ISBN: 1-5095-1535-6
"Rand's Atlas Shrugged was the second most popular choice, after the Bible.
Rand's books continue to be widely sold and read, with over 29 million copies
sold as of 2013 (with about 10% of that total purchased for free distribution to
schools by the Ayn Rand Institute). In 1998, Modern Library readers voted Atlas
Shrugged the 20th century's finest work of fiction, followed by The Fountainhead
in second place, Anthem in seventh, and ..."
A Chronicle of Crisis 2011 - 2016 by ZygmuntBauman Paperback, 178 Pages, Published 2017 by Social Europe Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-9997151-0-6, ISBN: 1-9997151-0-1
"Zygmunt Bauman was a towering intellectual who saw and analysed - right up to his death in early 2017 - the great socio-political changes, often convulsive, in modern western society long before his peers. Here we highlight his prescient insights into what he dubbed 'liquid modernity' with 24 chapters on topics ranging from online loneliness via precarity/poverty/inequality to migration, fear of the 'Other' and the decline of the nation ..."
Retrotopia(1st Edition) by ZygmuntBauman Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2017 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-1532-5, ISBN: 1-5095-1532-1
"We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state ? a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler. But while we have lost our faith in utopias of all hues, the human aspiration that made this vision so compelling has not died. Instead it is re-emerging tod ..."
Babel(1st Edition) by ZygmuntBauman, Ezio Mauro Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2016 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-0760-3, ISBN: 1-5095-0760-4
"We are living in an open sea, caught up in a continuous wave, with no fixed point and no instrument to measure distance and the direction of travel. Nothing appears to be in its place any more, and a great deal appears to have no place at all. The principles that have given substance to the democratic ethos, the system of rules that has guided the relationships of authority and the ways in which they are legitimized, the shared values a ..."