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«La cosiddetta "postmodernità" non fu che il momento in cui imparammo quali promesse della modernità erano pretese truffaldine o ingenue, quali delle sue ambizioni erano manifestazioni di una e quali intenzioni latenti si nascondevano sotto gli obiettivi dichiarati a voce alta… Il termine "postmodernità" mascherava e nascondeva più di quanto rivelasse il vero senso di ciò che stava accadendo a quel tempo». [Testo dell'editore]

Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a remarkable work by all measures. Written by Zygmunt Bauman when he was still a professor in Poland, and originally intended for publication in 1968, it was suppressed by the Polish government in the wave of repression following the protests in March of that year. For decades, it was thought to be lost. Astonishingly, it survived in the form of an uncorrected set of proofs which was recently discovered, and is the basis of this edition. Now published in English for the first time, this book sheds new light on Bauman's work prior to his emigration and illuminates the intellectual climate of Poland in the late 1960s. Bauman's pursuit of a semiotic theory of culture includes a discussion of processes of individualization and the intensification of global ties, anticipating themes that became central to his later work. Though this book stands as a testament to a historical moment, it also transcends it. '[W]e live in an age that seems, for the first time in human history, to acknowledge cultural multiplicity as an innate and fixed feature of the world, one which gives rise to new forms of identity that are at ease with plurality, like a fish in water', writes Bauman - a statement that is as true today as it was when he penned it in the 1960s. Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a strikingly prescient reflection on culture and society by one of the most influential social thinkers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities and to the many readers of Bauman's work.

Cover -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Introduction: The Age of Nostalgia -- Notes -- 1 Back to Hobbes? -- Notes -- 2 Back to Tribes -- Notes -- 3 Back to Inequality -- Notes -- 4 Back to the Womb -- Notes -- Epilogue: Looking Forward, For a Change -- Notes -- End User License Agreement.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- 1 Migration Panic and its (Mis)uses -- Notes -- 2 Floating Insecurity in Search of an Anchor -- Notes -- 3 On Strongmen's (or Strongwomen's) Trail -- Notes -- 4 Together and Crowded -- Notes -- 5 Troublesome, Annoying, Unwanted: Inadmissible -- Notes -- 6 Anthropological vs Time-bound Roots of Hatred -- Notes -- End User License Agreement

Bauman examina el momento en que la cultura pasó de ser el de un agente de cambio y se ha comportado como un medio de seducción al quedar marcada por la globalización, las migraciones y la mezcla poblacional. Mejor ejemplo de ello es Europa, en donde la cultura se revitaliza y comprende a través de la diversidad de razas, lenguas e historias. [Texto de la editorial]

'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface manifestations. Unpacking the social roots and social consequences of globalizing processes, this book disperses some of the mist that surrounds the term. Alongside the emerging planetary dimensions of business, finance, trade and information flow, a 'localizing', space-fixing process is set in motion. What appears as globalization for some, means localization for many others; signalling new freedom for some, globalizing processes appear as uninvited and cruel fate for many others. Freedom to move, a scarce and unequally distributed commodity, quickly becomes the main stratifying factor of our times. Neo-tribal and fundamentalist tendencies are as legitimate offspring of globalization as the widely acclaimed 'hybridization' of top culture - the culture at the globalized top. A particular reason to worry is the progressive breakdown in communication between the increasingly global and extra- territorial elites and ever more 'localized' majority. The bulk of the population, the 'new middle class', bears the brunt of these problems, and suffers uncertainty, anxiety and fear as a result. This book is a major contribution to the unfolding debate about globalization, and as such will be of interest to students and professionals in sociology, human geography and cultural issues. Zygmunt Baumanis Professor of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw and was awarded the Theodor W. Adorno Prize for 1998.

We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself for new ones, without knowing where it is going and without trying to plan the itinerary. And everything important in our lives - livelihood, human bonds, partnerships, neighbourhood, goals worth pursuing and dangers to avoid - feels transient, precarious, vulnerable, insecure, uncertain, risky. Is there a connection between the shape of the world we inhabit and the way we live our lives? Exploring that connection, and finding out just how close it