{"product_id":"44-letters-from-the-liquid-modern-world-9780745650579","title":"44 Letters from the Liquid Modern World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we fear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bauman is geniunely interested in changing attitudes between generations (about parenting, privacy, shopping, risk and the like), and the evolution of mores in fashion, culture, and education, never resorting to the boo-hurrah dichotomies employed by true professionals of this genre. Sympathy for the young is ever-present: there is much about the ambiguous goods of texting, Facebook and the like, and Bauman already saw modern existence as 'a life of continuous emergency' even before the financial crisis struck. Overall: magnificently untweetable.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Poole, The Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 On writing letters – from a liquid modern world 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Crowded solitude 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Parents and children conversing 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Offline, online 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 As the birds do 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Virtual sex 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Strange adventures of privacy (1) 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Strange adventures of privacy (2) 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Strange adventures of privacy (3) 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Parents and children 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Teenager spending 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Stalking the Y generation 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Freedom's false dawn 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The arrival of child-women 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 It is the eyelash's turn 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Fashion, or being on the move 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Consumerism is not just about consumption 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Whatever happened to the cultural elite 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Drugs and diseases 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Swine flu and other reasons to panic 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Health and inequality 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Be warned 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 The world inhospitable to education? (part one) 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The world inhospitable to education? (part two) 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 The world inhospitable to education? (part three) 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Ghosts of New Years past and New Years to come 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Predicting the unpredictable 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Calculating the incalculable 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Phobia’s twisted trajectories 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Interregnum 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Whence the superhuman force – and what for? 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Back home, you men? 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Escape from crisis 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Is there an end to depression? 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Who says you have to live by the rules? 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 The phenomenon of Barack Obama 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Culture in a globalized city 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 The voice of Lorna’s silence 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Strangers are dangers . . . Are they, indeed? 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Tribes and skies 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Drawing boundaries 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 How good people turn evil 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Fate and character 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 Albert Camus, or: \u003ci\u003eI\u003c\/i\u003e rebel, therefore \u003ci\u003ewe\u003c\/i\u003e exist . . . 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 186\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767977574743,"sku":"9780745650579","price":20.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/44-letters-from-the-liquid-modern-world-9780745650579","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}