Community - Seeking Safety in an Insecure World (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'tohave a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feelsgood because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of thempromising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasureswhich we would like to experience but seem to miss.

'Community' conveys the image of a warm and comfortable place, likea fireplace at which we warm our hands on a frosty day. Out there, in the street, all sorts of dangers lie in ambush; in here, in thecommunity, we can relax and feel safe. 'Community' stands for thekind of world which we long to inhabit but which is not, regrettably, available to us. Today 'community' is another name forparadise lost - but for a paradise which we still hope to find, aswe feverishly search for the roads that may lead us there.

But there is a price to be paid for the
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