by Zygmunt Bauman · Ediciones Paidós · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449316715
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In 'Wasted Lives', Zygmunt Bauman explores the production of 'human waste' as an inevitable consequence of modernization. He analyzes how the 'superfluous' populations of emigrants and refugees are a side effect of economic progress and the pursuit of order. Bauman examines the contemporary cultural and political transformation, showing that the problem of 'human waste' is key to understanding the peculiarities of our common life, from global domination to the most intimate human relationships. This book offers a profound reflection on the human condition in liquid modernity.
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.
