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Modernity and Ambivalence
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Cornell Univ Pr
Publication date February 1, 1991
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780801426032
ISBN-10 0801426030
Dimensions 1 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight 1.20 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $49.95
Other format details university press
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In this book, now available in paperback, Bauman argues that our postmodern age is the time for reconciliation with ambivalence, we must learn how to live in an incurably ambiguous world.

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Hardcover
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from Cornell Univ Pr (February 1, 1991)
9780801426032 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $49.95
About: Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780745612423
 
New edition from Polity Pr (October 15, 1993)
9780745612423 | details & prices | 304 pages | List price $29.95
About: Modernity, argues Bauman, promised to bring the kind of clarity and transparency to human life that only reason can offer.

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