{"product_id":"on-education-conversations-with-riccardo-mazzeo-hardback-9780745661551","title":"On Education; Conversations with Riccardo Mazzeo (Hardback) 9780745661551","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOn Education\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConversations with Riccardo Mazzeo\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eZygmunt Bauman (Author), Riccardo Mazzeo (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745661551, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 May 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e100 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.308 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\"Bauman's knack for placing things in context and accounting for that uneasy feeling you get from this or that current development makes [On Education] stimulating.\"\u003cbr\u003ehttp:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2012\/06\/27\/review-zygmunt-bauman-education\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside Higher Ed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When graduates can't find jobs, the bargain of commercialised education – take out enormous student loans that will be repaid by your supposedly high salary later on – breaks down. So worries the sociologist Bauman, in a perky and colourful written interview with the Italian publisher Mazzeo. Even so, Bauman remains hopeful about the 'openness' of mind ideally encouraged by schooling – indeed, as he points out sharply, it is not 'practical' otherwise.\"\u003cbr\u003ehttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/may\/04\/steven-poole-nonfiction-choice-reviews\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Poole, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\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\"\u003eWhat is the role of education in a world where we no longer have a clear vision of the future and where the idea of a single, universal model of humanity seems like the residue of a bygone age? What role should educators play in a world where young people find themselves faced with deep uncertainty about their future, where the prospects of securing a stable, long-term career seem increasingly remote and where intensified population movements have created more diverse communities in which different cultures find themselves living side by side, no longer bound together by the belief that the other would eventually be assimilated into ‘our' culture?  \u003cp\u003eFaced with the bewildering features of our liquid modern world, many young people are inclined to withdraw - in some cases into the online world of games and virtual relationships, in other cases into anorexia, depression, alcohol or even drug abuse, hoping to find shelter from a world perceived as more and more dangerous. Others launch into more violent forms of behaviour, like street gangs and the looting carried out by young people who have been excluded from the temples of consumption but are eager to participate in the ceremony. And all this happens while our politicians look on, uncomprehending and indifferent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this short book Zygmunt Bauman - the leading social theorist of our liquid modern world, here in conversation with Riccardo Mazzeo - reflects on the predicament of young people today and on the role of education and the educator in a world where the certainties of our predecessors can no longer be taken for granted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Between mixophilia and mixophobia 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 José Saramago: ways of being happy 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Gregory Bateson and his third level of education 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 From closure of mind to ‘permanent revolution’ 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Oak trees and ridiculously minute acorns 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Looking for a genuine ‘cultural revolution’ 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Depravation is the cleverest strategy of deprivation 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Minutes to destroy, years to build 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The young as a tip for the consumer industry 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The effort to improve mutual understanding is a prolific source of human creativity 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The unemployed can always play lotto, can’t they? 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Disability, abnormality, minority as a political problem 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Indignation and swarm- like political groupings 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Defective consumers and never- ending minefields 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Richard Sennett on difference 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 From Lacan’s ‘capitalist’ to Bauman’s ‘consumerist’ 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 ?i?ek and Morin on monotheism 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Proust’s petite madeleine and consumerism 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 On fuels, sparks and fires 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 On glocalization coming of age 136\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":52407326540056,"sku":"9780745661551","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745661551.jpg?v=1784162191","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/on-education-conversations-with-riccardo-mazzeo-hardback-9780745661551","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}