- Social isolation, Social distance, Interpersonal relations, Intergroup relations
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Contemporary, spare, character-led and classical in form.
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- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Zygmunt Bauman
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780745624884
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First sentence
“'My dear friend, I send you a small work of which one could say, not unjustly, that it has neither head nor tail, since everything in it is on the contrary a head and a tail, alternatively and reciprocally.”
About Zygmunt Bauman · 1925–2017
Polish philosopher and sociologist
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