On Education

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds Riccardo Mazzeo is editor at the Italian publisher Edizioni Erickson

"Bauman's knack for placing things in context and accounting for that uneasy feeling you get from this or that current development makes [On Education] stimulating."http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/06/27/review-zygmunt-bauman-education"Inside Higher Ed"When graduates can't find jobs, the bargain of commercialised education – take out enormous student loans that will be repaid by your supposedly high salary later on – breaks down. So worries the sociologist Bauman, in a perky and colourful written interview with the Italian publisher Mazzeo. Even so, Bauman remains hopeful about the 'openness' of mind ideally encouraged by schooling – indeed, as he points out sharply, it is not 'practical' otherwise."http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/04/steven-poole-nonfiction-choice-reviews"Steven Poole, The Guardian

• 1 Between mixophilia and mixophobia 12 José Saramago: ways of being happy 73 Gregory Bateson and his third level of education 114 From closure of mind to ‘permanent revolution’ 155 Oak trees and ridiculously minute acorns 246 Looking for a genuine ‘cultural revolution’ 277 Depravation is the cleverest strategy of deprivation 318 Minutes to destroy, years to build 409 The young as a tip for the consumer industry 5410 The effort to improve mutual understanding is a prolific source of human creativity 6011 The unemployed can always play lotto, can’t they? 6512 Disability, abnormality, minority as a political problem 7413 Indignation and swarm- like political groupings 8014 Defective consumers and never- ending minefields 8615 Richard Sennett on difference 10016 From Lacan’s ‘capitalist’ to Bauman’s ‘consumerist’ 11217 ?i?ek and Morin on monotheism 12118 Proust’s petite madeleine and consumerism 12619 On fuels, sparks and fires 13020 On glocalization coming of age 136