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","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQtVORGDV1q2C38PODn0SV.png?v=1764955361\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Why do we tolerate inequality? \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/70960987\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eRevisit Zygmunt Bauman's key works!\u003cbr\u003e The Selection Series corrects mistranslations and unifies terminology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The books of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, who passed away on January 9, 2017, at the age of 91, have been competitively translated in Korea for several years, proving Bauman's popularity.\u003cbr\u003e These books include his so-called 'liquid modern' series, such as 'Liquid Modernity', 'Liquid Fear', and 'Liquid Love'.\u003cbr\u003e However, as can be seen from the title of the book, Bauman's unique concept of 'liquid' has been translated into various ways such as 'liquid' and 'flowing', and there are also books that simply use 'liquid' because it was difficult to translate. \u003cbr\u003eBauman used 'liquid' as the counterpart of 'solid', meaning fixed, and translated the former as 'solid' and the latter as 'liquid'. One of Bauman's representative works, 『Liquid Modernity』(2000), was translated into Korean in 2009 under the title 『Liquid Modernity』.\u003cbr\u003e Bauman is a famous scholar who described today's culture as a 'liquid modern world' and described it as its key characteristic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although scholars have differing opinions on whether to translate 'liquid' in Bauman's important concept of 'liquid modern' as 'liquid' or 'flowing', it has been consistently pointed out that translating 'modern' to modern times is clearly a mistake.\u003cbr\u003e May Spring Publishing, which published Bauman's book Culture in a Liquid Modern World in 2013, said in a press release that \"there are certainly cases where Bauman's 'modern' refers to modern times. \u003cbr\u003eHowever, Bauman clearly distinguishes between two aspects of 'modernity', making it clear that the correct translation is 'modernity'.\u003cbr\u003e The translation 'modern' is correct only when it refers to the first phase of 'modernity'.\u003cbr\u003e And in the first phase of modernity, the world was solid, not liquid.\u003cbr\u003e Therefore, the expressions 'fluid' or 'liquid' can never be used to decorate the word 'modern'.\u003cbr\u003e He stated that the word ‘modern’ is an expression that refers to ‘the era after the 17th and 18th centuries when capitalism was formed and civil society was established,’ as Bauman intended, and that he would correct the previous incorrect translation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe [Bauman Selection Series], published by Dongnyok Publishing House, has consistently unified Bauman's key concepts, which have been the subject of controversy, through discussions with scholars who have studied Bauman for a long time.\u003cbr\u003e The controversial term 'liquid modern' was also translated as 'fluid modern' in this series.\u003cbr\u003e We also corrected mistranslations and unified terminology.\u003cbr\u003e This series plans to retranslate Bauman's important works that are out of print in Korea, such as 『Work, Consumerism and the New Poor』, and republish Bauman's books published by Dongnyok, which have been criticized for their translation problems, such as 『44 Letters from the Liquid Modern World』, after retranslating or supplementing them.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Introduction  \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Exactly How Unequal Are We Today?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 Why Do We Tolerate Inequality?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: A Lie That's Bright Red, and a Lie That's Even Brighter\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The Gap Between Words and Actions\u003cbr\u003e main\u003cbr\u003e Translator's Note\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Despite the world's desperate push for economic growth fundamentalism, poverty persists and refuses to disappear.\u003cbr\u003e Any thoughtful person cannot help but pause and think about the direct victims as well as the collateral victims of wealth redistribution.\u003cbr\u003e The fact that the abyss between the poor and the futureless and the rich, the optimistic, the confident and the energetic—an abyss so deep that even the most fearless climber with iron constitution cannot cross it—is growing deeper by the day is certainly enough to warrant serious concern.\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.10~11\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe rich get richer simply because they are rich, and the poor get poorer simply because they are poor.\u003cbr\u003e Today, inequality continues to deepen by its own logic and driving force.\u003cbr\u003e It doesn't require any outside help or drive.\u003cbr\u003e There is absolutely no need for any external stimulus, pressure, or shock.\u003cbr\u003e Today, social inequality seems to be becoming a permanent institution for the first time in history.\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.22-23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Economic growth' means increased wealth for a few, but for the vast majority it means a sharp decline in social status and self-esteem.\u003cbr\u003e \"Economic growth,\" as we encounter it through the collective experience of increasingly harmful consequences, does not appear to be a universal solution to the dire social problems evident everywhere, but rather a primary cause that perpetuates and exacerbates them.\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.66~67\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt goes without saying that it is irrational to blame oneself for the world.\u003cbr\u003e Nevertheless, to accept responsibility for the world, even if it means taking responsibility for both the decisions and the consequences, is the last chance to save the logic of the world from the blindness it has wrought, from the consequences that lead others and ourselves to death.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The sentence of social inferiority imposed on the weak by themselves does not stop at the sentence itself; it not only suppresses opposition to the unjust inequality itself, but even whispers of mild discontent, and even accepts pity and sympathy from the victors. \u003cbr\u003eNow, objections to the status quo and the way of life that sustains it are no longer considered legitimate defenses of lost and stolen (but ostensibly inalienable) human rights, human rights that must be respected, their principles recognized, and their equal access to them.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It goes without saying that it is irrational to blame oneself for the world.\u003cbr\u003e Nevertheless, to accept responsibility for the world, even if it means taking responsibility for both the decisions and the consequences, is the last chance to save the logic of the world from the blindness it has wrought, from the consequences that lead others and ourselves to death.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.132\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhy are we silent on the wealth of the 1%?\u003cbr\u003e Bauman, Ask the Silent 99%!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt is said that the wealth of the world's 20 richest people today is equal to the combined wealth of the poorest billion people.\u003cbr\u003e According to Bauman, the 20-80 society is already a thing of the past.\u003cbr\u003e It's not a 1 vs 99 society.\u003cbr\u003e More precisely, a society of '0.1 to 99.9' has arrived.\u003cbr\u003e Statistics published in 2018 also support this.\u003cbr\u003e The World Inequality Report 2018 (http:\/\/wir2018.wid.world), written by about 100 economists from around the world, including Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, who collected income and wealth inequality data from almost every country, revealed that the wealth gained by the top 0.1% of the world's population, or 7.6 million people, over the past 37 years was equivalent to the share that went to the bottom 50%, or 3.8 billion people.\u003cbr\u003e The '0.1:99.9' society that we had only heard of was unfolding in reality.\u003cbr\u003e The gap between rich and poor around the world is growing increasingly severe, and in some countries, such as the Middle East and India, it has already reached extreme levels.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe report found that the world's richest 1% (about 76 million people) took home 27% of the wealth gained between 1980 and 2016.\u003cbr\u003e Furthermore, the analysis showed that there is a large gap even among the wealthy, with the top 0.1% (7.6 million people) accounting for 13% and the top 0.001% (76,000 people) accounting for 4%, and that the phenomenon of wealth being concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people has been worsening.\u003cbr\u003e What is noteworthy is that the growth rate of wealth achieved by the global middle class, which accounts for approximately 40% of the population between the bottom 50% and the top 1%, is converging to '0' during this period.\u003cbr\u003e These results are significant in that they prove that the logic of mainstream growth theorists, who have argued for the need to increase the 'pie (economic growth)' by talking about the 'trickle-down effect', was close to fiction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSociologist Zygmunt Bauman, who has analyzed modern society with the unique concept of 'liquid,' questions the reason why, in a structure where the gap between the rich and the poor is widening day by day, voices of anger are not erupting among the victims.\u003cbr\u003e What is shocking is that, rather than being angry, people are agreeing to tax cuts for the rich and cuts to welfare budgets.\u003cbr\u003e Why are we not exploding with anger at this growing gap between the rich and the poor, but instead just praising the reality?\u003cbr\u003e Why is this strange phenomenon of victims of inequality defending inequality and ridiculing cries for equality occurring?\u003cbr\u003e Bauman finds the secret to this strange phenomenon in the false beliefs we implicitly accept.\u003cbr\u003e We misunderstand this false belief as an 'obvious truth of the world' that cannot be confronted or reformed by human power. \u003cbr\u003eThe most recent example is the 'Trickle Down' theory.\u003cbr\u003e The argument is that if large corporations do well, the benefits will also flow to small and medium-sized enterprises and consumers, a logic that the government always mobilizes when operating economic policies centered on large corporations.\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, the logic is that breaking this cycle of false beliefs and choosing a new way of life will halt the march of social inequality.\u003cbr\u003e In this book, Bauman asks, “What is the state of our society today?\u003cbr\u003e The rich are getting richer, and the rich at the top are getting richer.\u003cbr\u003e On the other hand, the middle class is becoming hollowed out and the number of poor people is increasing.\u003cbr\u003e He also emphasized that “social opportunities are monopolized by the privileged, and the deepening polarization and winner-take-all inequality have become common challenges that we must address.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsumption = Happiness, Competition = Social Justice…\u003cbr\u003e Exposing the social reality that is rooted in false beliefs!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBauman identifies the following four representative lies that are planted in us by the classes that benefit from inequality.\u003cbr\u003e ① The belief that economic growth is the only way to solve any problem, ② The belief that permanently increasing consumption fulfills happiness, ③ The belief that inequality among people is natural, ④ The belief that competition is a necessary and sufficient condition for the reproduction of social order and social justice.\u003cbr\u003e Bauman points out that the reason people perceive the astronomical compensation of CEOs of large corporations as excessive while simultaneously accepting it as natural is because of a strong belief in the natural inequality of individual abilities.\u003cbr\u003e In particular, because resisting this belief comes at a high cost, we find ourselves resigned and forced to find a way to cooperate voluntarily. \u003cbr\u003eAs a result, today's inequality continues to deepen by its own logic and driving force.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author seeks to understand why inequality has been able to triumph so far within ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e The point is that we have given ourselves a 'sentence of inferiority' that we \"must inevitably accept inequality.\"\u003cbr\u003e The moment the inequality we have pronounced becomes a 'just inequality,' inequality can no longer be something to be opposed or improved.\u003cbr\u003e As the author points out, this is precisely the way to make inequality a 'perpetual motion machine' that will never stop.\u003cbr\u003e Bauman also talks about the problem of 'polarization'. \u003cbr\u003eThe results of a comparison of average incomes show that “Qatar, the world’s richest country today, has a per capita income 428 times that of Zimbabwe, the poorest country.” He criticizes that “despite the world desperately pushing for economic growth fundamentalism, poverty persists and does not disappear.”\u003cbr\u003e The problem is that we accept this widening polarization as our 'fate'.\u003cbr\u003e Is there no way to dismantle this?\u003cbr\u003e In response, Bauman raises his voice, saying, “We assume that different individuals are born with different abilities, not because they have different abilities to develop their potential due to different social conditions,” and “We are not billiard balls that move on a billiard table in the direction the cue points.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe problem is still inequality.\u003cbr\u003e How can we escape inequality?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBauman suggests that one way to escape inequality is to lift the “sentence of inferiority” we have imposed on ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e It is there that it becomes possible to oppose inequality and make it a target for improvement.\u003cbr\u003e Bauman argues that we must break the chains of false beliefs that bind us and choose a new way of life.\u003cbr\u003e The point is not to avoid the problem in any way, and not to compromise easily.\u003cbr\u003e The author writes, “Defeat does not mean that there was no possibility of victory in the face of impending doom.\u003cbr\u003e “It simply means that they failed to win due to ignorance and\/or neglect,” he emphasizes.\u003cbr\u003e However, simply discarding false beliefs does not change reality.\u003cbr\u003e The power of structured reality, the power of 'fate', is immense. \u003cbr\u003eHowever, breaking the chains that create and solidify the structured reality that is strangling us through wrong choices based on false beliefs and choosing a new way of life is the starting point for changing this unjust reality.\u003cbr\u003e It takes superhuman effort to make these choices and maintain such a life.\u003cbr\u003e In this book, Bauman does not hastily sing of hope.\u003cbr\u003e It is not easy to accept reality.\u003cbr\u003e Don't avoid the issue in any way! And, I emphasize that you shouldn't compromise easily, but think things through thoroughly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is fortunate that the current government is discussing agendas to resolve inequality, such as 'economic democratization' and 'welfare state.'\u003cbr\u003e However, it seems that these agendas are not being sustained or realized in reality.\u003cbr\u003e Could it be because we are still silent about inequality? \u003cbr\u003eCould it be that we have turned a blind eye to the countless inequalities, saying, “There’s nothing we can do,” or “Blame ourselves,” and have failed to call for the “economic democratization” and “welfare state” that have since faded?\u003cbr\u003e At the end of the book, Bauman tells us that even if this is the case, there is still something we can do.\u003cbr\u003e “Just shout!” Bauman emphasizes that simply stating reality as it is and shouting it out can change a lot. As I reread this book, I miss him so much because of his seemingly simple shouting.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDate of issue:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePage count, weight, size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144 pages | 212g | 128*188*12mm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9788972979333\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8972979333 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43894331539498,"sku":"140518","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/2750\/5962\/files\/e671da591afc9a623f352214d0037f4b.jpg?v=1765431454","url":"https:\/\/librairie.coreenne.fr\/en\/products\/140518","provider":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}