Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies write by Zygmunt Bauman. This book was released on 1992. Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Forfatteren opstiller den hypotese,at menneskets viden om, at det skal dø, har dybtgående indflydelse på den sociale opbygning i alle samfund
Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies
Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies write by Zygmunt Bauman. This book was released on 2013-06-26. Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'taboo' subject in modern societies: death and dying. The book develops a new theory of the ways in which human mortality is reacted to, and dealt with, in social institutions and culture. The hypothesis explored in the book is that the necessity of human beings to live with the constant awareness of death accounts for crucial aspects of the social organization of all known societies. Two different 'life strategies' are distinguished in respect of reactions to mortality. One, 'the modern strategy', deconstructs mortality by translating the insoluble issue of death into many specific problems of health and disease which are 'soluble in principle'. The 'post-modern strategy' is one of deconstructing immortality: life is transformed into a constant rehearsal of 'reversible death', a substitution of 'temporary disappearance' for the irrevocable termination of life. This profound and provocative book will appeal to a wide audience. It will also be of particular interest to students and professionals in the areas of sociology, anthropology, theology and philosophy.
The Anthem Companion to Zygmunt Bauman
The Anthem Companion to Zygmunt Bauman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anthem Companion to Zygmunt Bauman write by Michael Hviid Jacobsen. This book was released on 2023-10-03. The Anthem Companion to Zygmunt Bauman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume will illustrate the continuing interest in Bauman’s work through a number of chapters each dealing with the important aspects of his work and shedding light on some new angles and perspectives on his life and work. It seeks to position Bauman within the field of sociology and to provide some examples of his lasting contribution to and relevance for the discipline. Bauman’s ideas remain an important source of inspiration for many scholars and researchers working within a variety of different fields and sub-fields, appealing equally to empirical work and theoretical elaboration. This book contains ten chapters, and all chapters are devoted to the presentation and discussion of themes and ideas that were characteristic of Bauman’s way of doing and writing. The purpose of this volume – as with the other volumes published in the Anthem Press ‘Companion to Sociology’ series – is to provide a comprehensive overview of Zygmunt Bauman’s continued importance within the field of sociology and related social science disciplines.
Postmortal Society
Postmortal Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postmortal Society write by Michael Hviid Jacobsen. This book was released on 2017-03-31. Postmortal Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture, shedding light on the varied and ingenious ways in which humans and human societies aspire to confront and deal with death, or even seek to outlive it, as it were. Bringing together theoretical and empirical work from internationally acclaimed scholars across a range of disciplines, Postmortal Society offers studies of the strategies adopted and means available in modern society for trying to ‘cheat’ death or prolong life, the status of the dead in the modern Western world, the effects of beliefs that address the terror of death in other areas of life, the ‘immortalisation’ of celebrities, the veneration of the dead in virtual worlds, symbolic immortality through work, the implications of understanding ‘immortality’ in chemical-neuronal terms, and the apparent paradox of our greater reverence for the dead in increasingly secular, capitalist societies. A fascinating collection of studies that explore humanity’s attempts to deal with its own mortality in the modern age, this book will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and scholars of cultural studies with interests in death and dying.
Democratic Anxieties
Democratic Anxieties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democratic Anxieties write by Mario Feit. This book was released on 2011-03-15. Democratic Anxieties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Democratic Anxieties: Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship takes contemporary opposition to same-sex marriage as a starting point to consider anxieties about sex and death within conceptions of democratic citizenship. It pursues a less anxious democratic citizenship in creative readings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hannah Arendt, and Friedrich Nietzsche, and demonstrates how developing an appreciation of mortality is essential to the continued pluralization of democracy.
