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Zygmunt Bauman

  • Inês de Sousahas quotedlast year
    What is wrong with the society we live in, said Cornelius Castoriadis, is that it stopped questioning itself.
  • Inês de Sousahas quotedlast year
    point is, however, that contemporary society has given to the ‘hospitality to critique’ an entirely new sense and has invented a way to accommodate critical thought and action while remaining immune to the consequences of that accommodation, and so emerging unaffected and unscathed – reinforced rather than weakened – from the tests and trials of the open-house policy.
  • Inês de Sousahas quotedlast year
    Fulfilment is always in the future, and achievements lose their attraction and satisfying potential at the moment of their attainment, if not before.
  • Inês de Sousahas quotedlast year
    the emphasis (together with, importantly, the burden of responsibility) has shifted decisively towards the self-assertion of the individual.
  • Inês de Sousahas quotedlast year
    This fateful departure has been reflected in the relocation of ethical/political discourse from the frame of the ‘just society’ to that of ‘human rights’, that is refocusing that discourse on the right of individuals
  • Inês de Sousahas quotedlast year
    Risks and contradictions go on being socially produced; it is just the duty and the necessity to cope with them which are being individualized.
  • Inês de Sousahas quotedlast year
    The individual is the citizen’s worst enemy, de Tocqueville suggested. The ‘citizen’ is a person inclined to seek her or his own welfare through the well-being of the city – while the individual tends to be lukewarm, sceptical or wary about ‘common cause’, ‘common good’, ‘good society’ or ‘just society’.
  • Inês de Sousahas quotedlast year
    The only two useful things one would expect, and wish, ‘public power’ to deliver are to observe ‘human rights’,
  • Inês de Sousahas quotedlast year
    there are, simply, no effective ‘biographic solutions to systemic contradictions’,
  • Inês de Sousahas quotedlast year
    Let me repeat: there is a wide and growing gap between the condition of individuals de jure and their chances to become individuals de facto
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