Community
Seeking Safety in an Insecure World
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
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'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 day. Out there, in the street, all sorts of dangers lie in ambush; in here, in the community, we can relax and feel safe. 'Community' stands for the kind of world which we long to inhabit but which is not, regrettably, available to us. Today 'community' is another name for paradise lost - but for a paradise which we still hope to find, as we feverishly search for the roads that may lead us there.
But there is a price to be paid for the privilege of being in a community. Community promises security but seems to deprive us of freedom, of the right to be ourselves. Security and freedom are two equally precious and coveted values which could be balanced to some degree, but hardly ever fully reconciled. The tension between security and freedom, and between community and individuality, is unlikely ever to be resolved. We cannot escape the dilemma but we can take stock of the opportunities and the dangers, and at least try to avoid repeating past errors.
In this important new book, Zygmunt Bauman takes stock of these opportunities and dangers and, in his distinctive and brilliant fashion, offers a much-needed reappraisal of a concept that has become central to current debates about the nature and future of our societies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Community “
An Overture, or Welcome to Elusive Community.The Agony of Tantalus.Rerooting the Uprooted.Times of Disengagement, or the Great Transformation Mark Two.Secession of the Successful.Two Sources of Communalism.Right to Recognition, Right to Redistribution.From Equality to Multiculturalism.The Bottom Line: The Ghetto.Many Cultures, One Humanity?.Afterword.Notes.Index
Autoren-Porträt von Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman, geboren 1925 in Posen, lehrte ab 1954 Soziologie an der Universität Warschau. 1968 ging er nach Israel. 1971 erhielt Bauman einen Ruf auf den Lehrstuhl für Soziologie an der University of Leeds, den er bis 1990 inne hatte. Bauman erhielt 1989 den Amalfi-Preis, 1998 wurde er mit dem Theodor-W.-Adorno-Preis ausgezeichnet. Zygmunt Bauman ist einer der bedeutendsten Soziologen der Gegenwart.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Zygmunt Bauman
- 2000, 168 Seiten, Maße: 13,6 x 18,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
- ISBN-10: 0745626351
- ISBN-13: 9780745626352
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.12.2000
Sprache:
Englisch
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