In Search of Politics
Stanford University Press (1999)
| Abstract | Why do most of us consider ourselves free but also believe there is little we can change in the way the world is run - individually, severally, or even collectively? Why has the growth of individual freedom coincided with the growth of collective impotence? Bauman argues that this condition hangs on the agora - the space where private and public meet to seek the creation of 'public good', a 'just society', or 'shared values'. The problem is that little remains of such old style spaces. We cannot, he argues, overcome our collective impotence without resorting to politics and using the vehicle of political agency. Three orientation points for a reconstruction of politics are suggested: the republican model of the state and of citizenship, basic income as a universal entitlement, and re-enabling the institutions of autonomous society by catching up with the controlling extraterritorial powers in an age of globalization. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Political science Philosophy Social sciences Philosophy Postmodernism Social aspects | |||||||||
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| Call number | JA71.B38 1999 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0804738343 9780804738347 | |||||||||
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