When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of impulse, the limiting of self expression. Today, in the time of postmodernity, Bauman argues, Freud’s analysis no longer holds good, if it ever did. The regulation of desire turns from an irritating necessity into an assault against individual freedom. In the postmodern era, the liberty of the individual is the overriding value, the criterion in terms of which all social rules and regulations are assessed. Postmodernity is governed by the ‘will to happiness’: the result, however, is a sacrificing of security.
The most prominent anxieties in our society today, Bauman shows, derive from the removal of security. The world is experienced as overwhelmingly uncertain, uncontrollable and frightening. Totalitarian politics frightened by its awesome power; the new social disorder frightens by its lack of consistency and direction. The very pursuit of individual happiness corrupts and undermines those systems of authority needed for a stable life.
This book builds imaginatively upon Bauman’s earlier contributions to social theory. It consolidates his reputation as the interpreter of postmodernity. The book will appeal to undergraduates and above in sociology, cultural studies, philosophy and anthropology.
CONTENTS
• Introduction: Discontents – Modern and Postmodern
• The Dream of Purity
• Making and Unmaking of Strangers
• The Strangers of the Consumer Era: from the Welfare State to Prison
• Morality Begins at Home: or the Rocky Road to Justice
• Parvenu and Pariah: the Heroes and Victims of Modernity
• Tourists and Vagabonds: the Heroes and Victims of Postmodernity
• Postmodern Art, or the Impossibility of the Avant-garde
• The Meaning of Art and the Art of Meaning
• On Truth, Fiction and Uncertainty
• Culture as Consumer Co-operative
• On the Postmodern Deployment of Sex: Foucault’s History of Sexuality Revisited
• Immortality, Postmodern Version
• Postmodern Religion?
• On Communitarianism and Human Freedom, or How to Square the Circle
• Afterword: The Last Word – and it Belongs to Freedom
POSTMODERNITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of impulse, the limiting of self expression. Today, in the time of postmodernity, Bauman argues, Freud’s analysis no longer holds good, if it ever did. The regulation of desire turns from an irritating necessity into an assault against individual freedom. In the postmodern era, the liberty of the individual is the overriding value, the criterion in terms of which all social rules and regulations are assessed. Postmodernity is governed by the ‘will to happiness’: the result, however, is a sacrificing of security.
Edition | 2020 Hardcover |
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ISBN | 9788131611210 |
Pages | 228 |
Author |
Zygmunt Bauman |
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