Bauman / Bordoni State of Crisis

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8527-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 180 Seiten, E-Book

Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often madewith the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucialdifference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s:today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolvethe crisis and to chart a new way forward. In our increasinglyglobalized world, states have been stripped of much of their powerto shape the course of events. Many of our problems are globallyproduced but the volume of power at the disposal of individualnation-states is simply not sufficient to cope with the problemsthey face. This divorce between power and politics produces a newkind of paralysis. It undermines the political agency that isneeded to tackle the crisis and it saps citizens' belief thatgovernments can deliver on their promises. The impotence ofgovernments goes hand in hand with the growing cynicism anddistrust of citizens. Hence the current crisis is at once a crisisof agency, a crisis of representative democracy and a crisis of thesovereignty of the state.
In this book the world-renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman andfellow traveller Carlo Bordoni explore the social and politicaldimensions of the current crisis. While this crisis has beengreatly exacerbated by the turmoil following the financial crisisof 2007-8, Bauman and Bordoni argue that the crisis facing Westernsocieties is rooted in a much more profound series oftransformations that stretch back further in time and are producinglong-lasting effects.
This highly original analysis of our current predicament by two ofthe world's leading social thinkers will be of interest to awide readership.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bauman, Zygmunt

Bordoni, Carlo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. CRISIS OF THE STATE
1a. A definition of crisis
1b. A statism without a State
1c. State and nation
1d. Hobbes and the Leviathan
2. MODERNITY IN CRISIS
2a. The promises withdrawn
2b. Leaving modernity
2c. Through postmodernity
2d. Deconstruction and denial
2e. The end of history?
3. DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS
3a. Ethics of progress and democracy
3b. An excess of democracy?
3c. Postdemocracy
3d. For a new global order

Über Autor(innen)

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. His many books have become international bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages.
CARLO BORDONI is a scholar, essayist and journalist, specialising in the sociology of culture. He has taught sociology at the Universities of Pisa and Florence, the Oriental Institute in Naples and at the academy of fine arts in Carrarra.