Modernity and Ambivalence

Zygmunt Bauman

Paperback (23 Sep 1993)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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ISBN:	9780745612423
Publisher:	Polity Press
Imprint:	Polity Press
Pub date:	23 Sep 1993
DEWEY:	306
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	285
Weight:	448g
Height:	226mm
Width:	153mm
Spine width:	18mm