The End of Equality

ISBN-13: 9781138204911 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 84 str.

Carlo Bordoni

Opis

In this book, the author examines the question of inequality and the social problems it is creating in societies across the world, arguing that with the crisis of modernity, the ideal of equality appears to be over. As more and more of the world’s resources are concentrated in ever fewer hands, this book asks whether the end of mass society will coincide with the end of equality and a re-evaluation of the worth of the individual. Are we heading towards a liquid world in which being equal is now considered less a virtue than a weakness?

Recenzje

'A very important addition to the growing literature on rising inequality - reflecting the rising of public anxiety about the future of human togetherness. An erudite, in-depth analysis of the three hundred years long history of the modern postulate/promise of leveling up the differences between individuals' life quality, life's prospects as well as the social positions that result the degrees of social recognition and respect those positions offer; and an insight into the short-, middle- and long-term consequences of the collapse of that postulate and the withdrawal of that promise.'- Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK

O autorze

Carlo Bordoni is a sociologist and journalist, former lecturer at the University of Florence and Director of the Academy of Fine Arts, Italy. He writes for the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera and its literary supplement, La Lettura; for the quarterly Prometeo and for the journal Social Europe on-line. He is the author of Interregnum: Beyond Liquid Modernity, and the co-author, with Zygmunt Bauman, of State of Crisis.