ISBN: 0745610161
Godina izdanja: 1992
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Zygmunt Bauman - Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies
Polity Press, 1992
224 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro, beleške grafitnom olovkom na desetak strana.

An exploration of what is still a taboo subject in modern societies: death and dying. Bauman puts forward a new theory explaining the individual, cultural, and institutional strategies for dealing with human mortality.

Table of Contents
• 1. Living with Death. Knowledge that cannot be believed. The existential ambivalence of being. Coping with ambivalence: a brief survey of expedients. The mortal roots of culture`s immortality. The game of survival. Yearning for face, fleeing from face. The loneliness of terror
• 2. Bidding for Immortality. Immortality, the great de-equalizer. Private roads to immortality. Immortal thoughts, immortal thinkers. The loneliness of immortality. Immortality as shelter. The precarious survival of immortality. Immortality into notoriety
• 3. The Selfish Species. The cultural take-over. Death suffered, death defied. Power-assisted universality. Selfish societies. Constructing the nation`s immortality. Survival as group privilege. Immortality dressed as history. Mortality collectivized
• 4. Modernity, or Deconstructing Mortality. The Other of emancipation. The stratifying magic. Modern promises, modern fears. Killing death
• 5. Postmodernity, or Deconstructing Immortality. Eternity decomposed. Now, wonderful now. Making history in a world without history. Death`s disappearing act. Games and spectacles. Death daily rehearsed. Beneficiaries and victims
• Postscript: `To die for...`, or Death and Morality.


Nonfiction, Philosophy, 0745610161, Zigmunt Bauman