Mortality Immortality and Other Life Strategies

'Characteristically perceptive ... this indispensable book shines harsh X-rays through the western body politic to reveal a skeleton in the closet of recent social history.' New Statesman and Society 'A brilliant, outstanding book.' Manna 'A fascinating, and at times novel, interpretation of the cultural meanings of death.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'Bauman's work taken as a whole adds up to a formidable analysis and critique of modernity and its complement.' Social History of Medicine 'those who find pleasure ... in decoding the references, in pursuing ideas in a playful way, in enjoying once again the old academic wit and style, in exposing contradictions in our feeble settlements and cultural rapprochernents will enjoy it enormously.' Reviewing SociologyBauman, Zygmunt is the author of 'Mortality Immortality and Other Life Strategies' with ISBN 9780745609409 and ISBN 0745609406.