Culture in a Liquid Modern World

Culture in a Liquid Modern World
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In its original formulation, â€˜cultureâ€™ was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating â€˜the peopleâ€™ by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture has lost its missionary role and has become a means of seduction: it seeks no longer to enlighten the people but to seduce them. The function of culture today is not to satisfy existing needs but to create new ones, while simultaneously ensuring that existing needs remain permanently unfulfilled. Culture today likens itself to a giant department store where the shelves are overflowing with desirable goods that are changed on a daily basis - just long enough to stimulate desires whose gratification is perpetually postponed.

In this new book Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most brilliant and influential social thinkers of our time - retraces the peregrinations of the concept of culture and examines its fate in a world marked by the powerful new forces of globalization, migration and the intermingling of populations. He argues that Europe has a particularly important role to play in revitalizing our understanding of culture precisely because Europe, with its great diversity of peoples, languages and histories, is the space where the Other is always oneâ€™s neighbour and where each is constantly called upon to learn from everyone else.
Country USA
Brand Wiley
Manufacturer Polity
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber POLTE
ReleaseDate 2011-07-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780745653556

Country	USA
Brand	Wiley
Manufacturer	Polity
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	POLTE
ReleaseDate	2011-07-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780745653556

Culture in a Liquid Modern World

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