Public Intimacy
The Dissolution of the Private in Liquid Society
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2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-23860-7 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-23860-7 (ISBN)
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This book examines the paradoxical collapse of privacy in contemporary society. The text analyses how personal boundaries are dissolved through digital technologies and how social networks and media technologies encourage individuals to publicly expose their intimate thoughts in search for recognition in a fragmented, modern world.
This book examines the paradoxical collapse of privacy in contemporary society, where personal boundaries are increasingly dissolved through digital technologies, exploring how social networks and new media technologies encourage individuals to publicly expose their most intimate thoughts and experiences in search for recognition and connection in a fragmented, liquid modern world.
Throughout six focused chapters, the book explores the transformation of community bonds, the exhibition of intimacy online, and the rise of emotion-driven politics. It reveals how the constant sharing of private life creates a society dominated by the present moment, where fleeting connections replace deeper relationships and reason is subordinated to emotional impulses, leading to populist and sovereigntist tendencies. Drawing on lucid analysis of the dialectics of the state, the community, machine-based interaction, and the loss of intimacy, it thus offers valuable and timely insights into the changing nature of social relationships in late modernity.
This timely analysis will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and philosophy, as well as researchers in the social sciences more broadly with interests in understanding the social implications of digital culture.
This book examines the paradoxical collapse of privacy in contemporary society, where personal boundaries are increasingly dissolved through digital technologies, exploring how social networks and new media technologies encourage individuals to publicly expose their most intimate thoughts and experiences in search for recognition and connection in a fragmented, liquid modern world.
Throughout six focused chapters, the book explores the transformation of community bonds, the exhibition of intimacy online, and the rise of emotion-driven politics. It reveals how the constant sharing of private life creates a society dominated by the present moment, where fleeting connections replace deeper relationships and reason is subordinated to emotional impulses, leading to populist and sovereigntist tendencies. Drawing on lucid analysis of the dialectics of the state, the community, machine-based interaction, and the loss of intimacy, it thus offers valuable and timely insights into the changing nature of social relationships in late modernity.
This timely analysis will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and philosophy, as well as researchers in the social sciences more broadly with interests in understanding the social implications of digital culture.
Carlo Bordoni is a sociologist and journalist, and former lecturer at the University of Florence, Italy. He writes for the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera and its literary supplement, la Lettura, as well as for the quarterly journal Prometeo. He is co-author (with Zygmunt Bauman) of State of Crisis (2014), and the author of Interregnum: Beyond Liquid Modernity (2016), The End of Equality (2017) and State of Fear in a Liquid World (2017).
1. In Search of the Lost Community
2. Dissolution of the Private
3. The Exhibition of Intimacy
4. A Society of Singles
5. Populism and Sovereigntism
6. The Primacy of Short-Thinking
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.5.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-041-23860-6 / 1041238606 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-041-23860-7 / 9781041238607 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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