{"product_id":"on-education-conversations-with-riccardo-mazzeo-9780745661568","title":"On Education  Conversations with Riccardo Mazzeo","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* This is an engaging new book from one of the most influential and widely read sociologists in the world today.    * Bauman, in conversation with Riccardo Mazzeo, reflects on nature and role of education and on the predicament of young people in our contemporary, liquid-modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bauman's knack for placing things in context and accounting for that uneasy feeling you get from this or that current development makes [On Education] stimulating.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside Higher Ed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"When graduates can't find jobs, the bargain of commercialised education – take out enormous student loans that will be repaid by your supposedly high salary later on – breaks down. So worries the sociologist Bauman, in a perky and colourful written interview with the Italian publisher Mazzeo. Even so, Bauman remains hopeful about the 'openness' of mind ideally encouraged by schooling – indeed, as he points out sharply, it is not 'practical' otherwise.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSteven Poole, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Between mixophilia and mixophobia 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 José Saramago: ways of being happy 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Gregory Bateson and his third level of education 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 From closure of mind to ‘permanent revolution’ 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Oak trees and ridiculously minute acorns 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Looking for a genuine ‘cultural revolution’ 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Depravation is the cleverest strategy of deprivation 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Minutes to destroy, years to build 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The young as a tip for the consumer industry 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The effort to improve mutual understanding is a prolific source of human creativity 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The unemployed can always play lotto, can’t they? 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Disability, abnormality, minority as a political problem 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Indignation and swarm- like political groupings 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Defective consumers and never- ending minefields 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Richard Sennett on difference 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 From Lacan’s ‘capitalist’ to Bauman’s ‘consumerist’ 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 ?i?ek and Morin on monotheism 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Proust’s petite madeleine and consumerism 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 On fuels, sparks and fires 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 On glocalization coming of age 136\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767978000727,"sku":"9780745661568","price":18.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745661568.jpg?v=1758715765","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-education-conversations-with-riccardo-mazzeo-9780745661568","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}