{"product_id":"living-on-borrowed-time-conversations-with-citlali-rovirosa-madrazo-hardback-9780745647388","title":"Living on Borrowed Time; Conversations with Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo (Hardback) 9780745647388","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLiving on Borrowed Time\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConversations with Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eZygmunt Bauman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745647388, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 November 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e100 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2.1 cm, 0.445 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLiquid Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiving on Borrowed Times\u003c\/i\u003e offer deep insights into post-modern life. Specifically, it exposes the essential social and philosophical changes that lie at the heart of the conditions that led to the global financial crisis ... the ideas in these books are fascinating.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSatyajit Das, \u003ci\u003eWillmot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe global financial crisis has shattered the illusion that all was well with capitalism and forced us to confront the great challenges we face today with a new sense of urgency. Few are better placed to do this than Zygmunt Bauman, a social thinker whose writings on liquid modernity have pioneered a new way of seeing the world in which we live at the dawn of the 21st Century. \u003cp\u003eOur liquid modern world is characterized by the transition from a society of producers to a society of consumers, the natural extension of which is the society of perpetual debtors. The ruling idea of the society of consumers is to prevent needs from being satisfied and to create demand; its natural extension is to enable consumers to consume more by borrowing. Debt was transformed into a crucial profit-earning asset of capitalism in liquid modern times. The present-day 'credit crunch' is not the outcome of the banks' failure but rather the fruit of their success in transforming the majority of men and women, young and old, into a race of debtors. They got what they were looking for: a society of debtors whose condition of being in debt was made self-perpetuating, with more debts being offered, and more undertaken, as the only way of escaping from the debts already incurred.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStarting from this reflection on the current global financial crisis and prompted by the probing questions of his interlocutor, Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo, Bauman examines in an historical perspective some of the most pressing moral and political issues of our time, from international terrorism and the rise of religious and secular fundamentalism to the decline of the nation-state and the threats posed by global warming, issues whose seriousness and urgency attest to the fact that we are living today not only on borrowed money but also on borrowed time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by \u003ci\u003eCitlali Rovirosa-Madrazo\u003c\/i\u003e 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConversation I\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe credit crunch: an outcome of the Bank's failure, or a fruit of its outstanding success? Capitalism is not dead 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConversation II\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe welfare state in the age of economic globalization: the last remaining vestiges of Bentham's Panopticon. Policing or helping the poor? 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConversation III\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThis thing called 'the state': revisiting democracy, sovereignty and human rights 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two 97\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConversation IV\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eModernity, postmodernity and genocide: from decimation and annexation to 'collateral damage' 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConversation V\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePopulation, production and re-production of human waste: from contingency and indeterminacy to the inexorability of biotechnology (beyond Wall Street) 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConversation VI\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSecular fundamentalism versus religious fundamentalism: the race of dogmas or the battle for power in the twenty-first century 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConversation VII\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eDNA inscription: a new grammatology for a new economy. From homines mortales to DIY 'post-humans' in the advent of genetocracy 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConversation VIII\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eUtopia, love, or the lost generation 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 191\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407316381976,"sku":"9780745647388","price":47.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745647388.jpg?v=1784161167","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/living-on-borrowed-time-conversations-with-citlali-rovirosa-madrazo-hardback-9780745647388","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}