by Zygmunt Bauman · Fondo de Cultura Económica de España, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437506692
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In 'Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in the Global Age,' Zygmunt Bauman explores the growing social inequality and its effects on the marginalized. Through various essays, Bauman analyzes how the poor are deprived of opportunities and rights, becoming 'collateral damage' of a consumption-oriented economy. The author examines the relationship between inequality and human suffering, warning about the dangers of ignoring this issue on the political agenda. This book offers a profound reflection on contemporary social challenges and their possible solutions.
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.
