by Zygmunt Bauman · Ediciones Paidós · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449333224
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«Retrotopía» is Zygmunt Bauman's social philosophy essay, published by Ediciones Paidós in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Zygmunt Bauman analyzes the nostalgic turn of contemporary societies: having lost faith in future utopias, the aspiration for a better world is now projected onto an idealized past. Against Thomas More's classical utopia, retrotopia rescues abandoned potentials of the past as a reference for correcting the ills of the present, even if that past is selective and distorted.
Posthumous work by Zygmunt Bauman; part of the Estado y Sociedad collection. Translation by Albino Santos Mosquera.
Aimed at readers of essays and thought interested in sociology, political philosophy and analysis of contemporary society.
Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrated to Israel; three years later, he moved to the United Kingdom. He resided in England from 1971, where he studied at the London School of Economics and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, later emeritus. Bauman was a social theorist, writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, consumerism in postmodernity, and liquid modernity.
