《Modern Man in Search of Meaning》 Author: [UK] Zygmunt Bauman / Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House

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#"The greatest sociologist writing in English today," Zygmunt Bauman's work, a philosophical record of contemporary society. About modern people who cannot be alone, about the loss of a sense of security, about economic depression, consumption downgrading, education crisis, knowledge anxiety...

#Understand social truth, anti-consumption, anti-involution, anti-anxiety, piece together that familiar yet unfamiliar self from the fragments of life.

#A real record of reflection on personal space in the information age. In the vast ocean of information, how to break free from technological coercion and omnipresent tribal culture, and rediscover the value of individual existence?

#A diagnostic report of contemporary mental states, a late but arrived checklist of psychological symptoms: weary of competition, afraid of strangers, avoiding loneliness, self-enclosed, losing faith in survival and value...

#Hardcover small format, simple and burden-free, easy to carry, ready for consultation. A small book of thoughts dedicated to every "colleague" and "fellow patient."

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This is a fluid modern society where everything is changing, whether it's our work and study, or leisure and entertainment. Nothing is eternally constant, and no change is predictable. Everyone is isolated in an island of time, yearning to escape but feeling helpless.

Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman re-examines the subtle and profound relationship between everyday affairs and us with an eye that "turns the familiar into the strange": about modern people who cannot be alone, about the education crisis, knowledge anxiety, about economic depression, consumption downgrading, about the loss of a sense of security... This is Bauman's insightful diagnosis of our era, and a guide to life for everyone. He observes the truth of this era from a unique perspective, and also allows us to glimpse that familiar yet unfamiliar self.

About the Author · · · · · ·

Zygmunt Bauman

One of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary West. Formerly a professor of sociology at the University of Warsaw and a tenured professor at the University of Leeds, UK. Hailed as "one of the greatest sociologists writing in English today" and "a prophet of postmodernity." His representative works include "Modernity and the Holocaust," "Work, Consumerism and the New Poor," and "Liquid Modernity."

Zhang Yan

Professor at Shanghai International Studies University, specializing in cultural translation and translation aesthetics. Translator of works including "The Right to Be Unequal," "How to Suppress Women's Writing," "Amusing Ourselves to Death," "Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy (1949–1975)," and "Revisiting Brave New World."