Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World

by Zygmunt Bauman

Book Overview

'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasures which we would like to experience but seem to miss.


'Community' conveys the image of a warm and comfortable place, like a fireplace at which we warm our hands on a frosty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745626351
• ISBN13: 9780745626352
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.7" x 7.5"