Living with TINA
by Zygmunt Bauman & Leonidas Donskis
- Author(s)
- Zygmunt Bauman, Leonidas Donskis
- Publication
- Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016
- Scope
- 170 Pages, 23 cm.
In this book, the sequel to their acclaimed work Moral Blindness Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis guide the reader through this new terrain in which evil has become both more ordinary and more insidious, threatening to strip humanity of its dreams, alternative projects and powers of dissent at the very time when they are needed most. Evil lurks in the countless black holes of a thoroughly deregulated and privatized social space in which cutthroat competition and mutual estrangement have replaced cooperation and solidarity, while forceful individualization erodes the adhesive power of inter-human bonds. In its present form evil is hard to spot, unmask and resist. It seduces us by its ordinariness and then jumps out without warning, striking seemingly at random. The result is a social world that is comparable to a minefield: we know it is full of explosives and that explosions will happen sooner or later but we have no idea when and where they will occur.
- Keywords
- sociology , fear , anthropocene
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 3: Antropoceen
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