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by Zygmunt Bauman (Author) "'My dear friend, I send you a small work of which one could say, not unjustly, that it has neither head nor tail, since everything..." (more)

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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Polity Press (21 April 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0745624898
ISBN-13: 978-0745624891
Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 1.4 cm

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"Bauman is a social theorist whose work just gets better and better, which is pretty amazing if one considers his prolific output during recent years."

Anthony Elliott, University of the West of England

"This book is timely and shows accurate observation, lucid thinking and much background knowledge and wisdom"

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"Its thoughtful examination of our predicament is invigorating – like a cold shower."

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Its thoughtful examination of our predicament is invigorating - like a cold shower. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Octogenarian writes relevant book on 'modern relationships' shock!, 23 Nov 2006

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Given that this author is well into his eighties and has spent the last four decades or so cloistered as a prof in Leeds University's funnily shaped lecture theatres you might be forgiven for not expecting much from a book on a subject which is already straining under the weight of a hundred other irritatingly smug and patronisingly knowing alternatives. Certainly, if anyone had told me - a 'metrosexual' 'twentysomething' no less - that such a book would soon become one of the few things over which I reserve the right to annoy my friends by repeatedly recommending I would have probably offered to read it and then eat the pages if I agreed with them.

Despite initial academic appearances however, this book is by any standards a worthy rumination. Bauman is one of the few academics in the world who manages to write with half an ounce of either wit or pathos, and this particular offering sees him toning down the impressive reference points (opening quotes from Baudelaire aside) and allowing himself to be a little more literary. Also, unlike similar books to be found in the 'self-help' section of the library, his sociological mind keeps him well aware that adressing a book on the subject of love is frankly ridiculous if it's all about you, you and you. This point in particular is worth noting because it allows him to flip from romance to asylum seekers without even seeming to change subjects. (Definately a question you're unlikely to find cropping up in Neil Strauss books: 'When trying to get in a lady's pants remember to consider the genocide in Darfur'? It doesn't seem to fit somehow.) On the whole it's a fairly good entry point for the layman into Bauman's oevre as a whole too; just don't expect any savvy 21st century advice if you pick up Modernity and the Holocaust (not of this sort anyway).

The only word of warning is perhaps that, I've heard it said, Bauman is an inveterate passimist. I don't know how well that holds up personally. He's elegiac here, without doubt, but he's more affected, I think, by a refusal to give in to naive optimism - and hence a refusal to stop hoping for better. A little like one of his heroes, Emmanuel Levinas, says: the truly human life is never really satisfied.

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