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The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered.

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"Liquid Times and Living on Borrowed Times offer deep insights into post-modern life. Specifically, it exposes the essential social and philosophical changes that lie at the heart of the conditions that led to the global financial crisis ... the ideas in these books are fascinating."
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Bravely into the Hotbed of Uncertainties 1

1 Liquid Modern Life and its Fears 5

2 Humanity on the Move 27

3 State, Democracy and the Management of Fears 55

4 Out of Touch Together 71

5 Utopia in the Age of Uncertainty 94

Notes 111

Liquid Times

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      Publisher Polity Press
      Published 1 March 2007
      ISBN-13 9780745639864
      978-0745639864
      ISBN-10 0745639860
      Also in:
      Sociology and anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered.

      Trade Review
      "Liquid Times and Living on Borrowed Times offer deep insights into post-modern life. Specifically, it exposes the essential social and philosophical changes that lie at the heart of the conditions that led to the global financial crisis ... the ideas in these books are fascinating."
      Satyajit Das, Willmot.com

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Bravely into the Hotbed of Uncertainties 1

      1 Liquid Modern Life and its Fears 5

      2 Humanity on the Move 27

      3 State, Democracy and the Management of Fears 55

      4 Out of Touch Together 71

      5 Utopia in the Age of Uncertainty 94

      Notes 111

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