by Zygmunt Bauman · PAID/CRITI · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789501254006
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«Miedo líquido» is the philosophical essay by Zygmunt Bauman, published by Paidós in paperback (232 pages, in Spanish).
Bauman analyses why, despite the modern promise to eradicate fear, contemporary society lives anxiously in the face of unpredictable threats such as disasters or terrorist attacks. «Fear» designates the uncertainty of liquid modernity and the powerlessness to control dangers; the author makes an inventory of these fears and proposes how to defuse them.
The work was originally published as «Liquid Fear» in 2006; this Spanish-language edition dates from 2007. It belongs to the «Liquid Series».
It will interest readers of philosophy and sociology, as well as those who follow Bauman's work on 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.
