The End of Equality

Bordoni, Carlo

ISBN 10: 0367607506 / ISBN 13: 9780367607500

Verlag: Routledge, 2020

2020. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9780367607500

Inhaltsangabe:

The economic crisis has brought social differences to the fore, reinventing the old question of inequality as democracy's missed opportunity. Many have attempted to find a rational explanation of the problem, tracing it back to poor economic policy and reckless liberalisation of finance, or the crisis of banks and governments, as well as the collapse of family relationships. At the same time, globalisation has reduced the differences between some nations, bringing emerging countries to the level of the more advanced, but has dangerously increased internal inequalities. 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, the promise of mass society as a means to grant equality and cancel the differences of classes appears to be giving way to a rising individualism. This book asks whether the apparent 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?

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The End of Equality
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New
Auflage: 1. Auflage