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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: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 27/02/2007
    ISBN13: 9780745639871, 978-0745639871
    ISBN10: 0745639879
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    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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