Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies (eBook)

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw. He is the author of a number of other books including the extremely successful Modernity and the Holocaust (Polity, 1989) which won the 1989 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Theory, and Modernity and Ambivalence (Polity, 1991). He was also awarded the Theodor W. Adorno prize for 1998.

1. Living with Death.

2. Bidding for Immortality.

3. The Selfish Species.

4. Modernity, or Deconstructing Mortality.

5. Postmodernity, or Deconstructing Immortality.

Postscript: "To Die For..." or Death and Morality.

About This Book.

References.

'Characteristically perceptive ... this indispensable book shines
harsh X-rays through the western body politic to reveal a skeleton
in the closet of recent social history.' New Statesman and
Society

'A brilliant, outstanding book.' Manna

'A fascinating, and at times novel, interpretation of the
cultural meanings of death.' Times Higher Education
Supplement

'Bauman's work taken as a whole adds up to a formidable analysis
and critique of modernity and its complement.' Social History of
Medicine

'Those who find pleasure ... in decoding the references, in
pursuing ideas in a playful way, in enjoying once again the old
academic wit and style, in exposing contradictions in our feeble
settlements and cultural rapprochernents will enjoy it enormously.'
Reviewing Sociology