self

“I wanted to realize myself, but I didn’t know who I was.”
“In today’s world, the risk of ‘losing everything’ is permanent. High-level professionals with ‘unique’ knowledge can be cruelly reduced to incompetence with the emergence of new technologies.”
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A wise conversation with the author of "Work, Consumerism, and the New Poor." The second of four books in the NTU Bauman Conversation Series!
◎ A philosophical record of "how modern people shape themselves and how they get along with the world and others."
◎ The great sociologist × the first president of Tallinn University, an intellectual confrontation, a small book of thoughts dedicated to our generation.
◎ An "anti-nihilistic" survival guide written for contemporary people: focusing on oneself and recording the situation of people in the tide of the times.
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【Editor's Recommendation】
※ 21st century great sociologist × Philosophy talk show hosted by Vita Brevis __ Email exchange, intellectual confrontation. A contemporary "anti-nihilistic" survival guide. Describing the human condition in the tide of the times from different perspectives.
※ Chat about today's life, record history and philosophy: technological changes, AI, the brevity of life, the instability of the new middle class, social phenomena on the Internet, failed social performances, non-existent self-realization, imaginary connections...__Bauman uses "self" as a weather vane to survey the fluctuations of individuals and the world in the space-time coordinate system.
A short book focusing on the self and the human condition. It reconnects me with the world. We are both conflicted and lost. We strive to realize ourselves, yet we also want to escape the emptiness within.
Bauman and Rhodes, with their sharp eyes, saw the impotence of the times, yet they tenderly left room for individual happiness. "Human life is to make it bearable, even worth living, under the premise of being aware of one's own mortality."
A brilliant and witty "Great Two-Man Talk Show." Borges, Freud, Levinas, and others all surface; scientism, dissipative theory, artificial intelligence—a cross-disciplinary intellectual exchange and collision, collectively outlining the self.
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【Content Introduction】
◎You must face yourself first before you can find meaning - an "anti-nihilism" survival guide written for contemporary people!
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Zygmunt Bauman, author of Work, Consumerism and the New Poor, is one of the great sociologists and thinkers of the 21st century.
He once exchanged emails with Ryan Rohde, a professor at the Faculty of Humanities at Tallinn University, to discuss the "modern self." He conducted a comprehensive review of the self, one of the most crucial concepts in our world today and a fundamental keyword of the human condition. This work offers a deeper understanding of how our generation, living in uncertain times and experiencing a constant sense of self-determination, navigates the conflict between self and society. In a sense, "modern history" is a history of the self. How does the self emerge? How do individuals understand their place in the world? Has the model of selfhood undergone fundamental change in today's world? Do new technologies empower us with greater autonomy, or do they tempt us to abandon our existing freedoms?
Bauman and Rhodes meet as rivals, combining their respective knowledge of sociology, philosophy, cultural theory, and psychology to engage in a fascinating, broad, and in-depth dialogue on the core question of "how to understand the complex self in the fluid modern world."
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【Recommended by media and scholars】
Bauman uses extraordinary talent and creativity to establish a position that everyone must take seriously. - British sociologist Giddens Bauman describes in detail the cultural, philosophical and social conditions that define "self" in the 21st century... He is one of Britain's most fascinating thinkers... He has a lot of works, he engages in dialogue with different people and keeps up with the times. - The Guardian
This book is small, but it's packed with information. Read it, immerse yourself in it, and enjoy it. I love Bauman's work, but this one is special because it's a structured conversation between him and another equally intelligent person. These conversations, more like Plato's Socratic dialogues, are more like a conversation. —Goodreads reader

2024-08-18

南京大学出版社

Nanjing University Press·Watchman

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9787305282072