In Search of Politics

by Zygmunt Bauman

Book Overview

In this book, the noted sociologist confronts the decline of the public realm and the profound contradictions of freedom in present-day society. How can most of us consider ourselves free and yet believe equally firmly that there is little we can change--singly, severally, or all together--in the ways the affairs of the world are being run? Why has the growth of individual freedom coincided with the growth of collective impotence, insofar as there...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804738343
• ISBN13: 9780804738347
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"