The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth Science

by Zygmunt Bauman

Book Overview

In this book, the noted sociologist confronts the decline of the public realm and the profound contradictions of freedom in present-day society. How can most of us consider ourselves free and yet believe equally firmly that there is little we can change--singly, severally, or all together--in the ways the affairs of the world are being run? Why has the growth of individual freedom coincided with the growth of collective impotence, insofar as there...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804738335
• ISBN13: 9780804738330
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"