Forfatter fødeår: 1925
A discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict which argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society.
Explores the impact of the 'living utopia' of socialism on the development of modern society. This title begins with an analysis of the role of utopia in... Læs mere
A discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict. It traces the formation of a class society back to the patterns of 'surveillance power' and control, and shows how these patterns preceded and made possible the industrial system.
A new afterword to this edition, "The Duty to Remember—But What?" tackles difficult issues of guilt and innocence on the individual and societal levels. Zygmunt Bauman explores the silences found in debates about the Holocaust, and asks what the...