The Bauman Reader

The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman range across a large number of issues in sociology, politics, history, and cultural studies. This is the first collection of Bauman′s writings to cover the entire breadth of his work, and includes a summarizing essay and commentary by editor Peter Beilharz.
Beginning with Bauman′s early English–language work on socialism, the Reader proceeds through Legislators and Interpreters to Bauman′s defense of a sociology of the postmodern. The editor has also selected essays from Bauman′s preeminent works on the Holocaust and on globalization. The book includes a new extensive interview, anticipating some of Bauman′s forthcoming work.

Spis treści:
Preface.
1. Introduction: Peter Beilharz: Reading Zygmunt Bauman.
2. The Telos Interview.
3. Socialism.
3.1 The Historical Location of Socalism.
3.2 Modern Times, Modern Marxism.
3.3 Communism: A Postmortem.
4. Class and Power.
4.1 Class: Before and After.
4.2 Gamekeepers Turned Gardeners.
4.3 The Rise of the Interpreter.
5. Hermeneutics and Critical Theory.
5.1 The Challenge of Hermeneutics.
5.2 Critical Theory.
5.3 Modernity.
6. Sociology and the Postmodern.
6.1 A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity.
6.2 The Re–Enchantment of the World, or, How Can One Narrate Postmodernity?.
7. Figures of Modernity.
7.1 Making and Unmaking of Strangers.
7.2 Parvenu and Pariah: The Heroes and Victims of Modernity.
8. The Century of Camps.
8.1 Sociology After the Holocaust.
8.2 Dictatorship Over Needs.
8.3 A Century of Camps?.
9. Ambivalence and Ethics.
9.1 The Quest for Order.
9.2 The Social Construction of Ambivalence.
10. Globalization and the New Poor.
10.1 On Glocalization: Or Globalization for Some, Localization for Some Others.
10.2 From the Work Ethic to the Aesthetic of Consumption.
11. The Journey Never Ends, Zygmun t Bauman Talks With Peter Beilharz.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Peter Beilharz holds a Chair in Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia. In 1980 he co–founded Thesis Eleven, the international journal of social theory. His major books include Labour′s Utopias (1992), Postmodern Socialism (1994), Transforming Labor (1994), Imagining the Antipodes (1997), and Zygmunt Bauman: Dialectic of Modernity (2000)

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The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman range across a large number of issues in sociology, politics, history, and cultural studies. This is the first collection of Bauman′s writings to cover the entire breadth of his work, and includes a summarizing essay and commentary by editor Peter Beilharz.
Beginning with Bauman′s early English–language work on socialism, the Reader proceeds through Legislators and Interpreters to Bauman′s defense of a sociology of the postmodern. The editor has also selected essays from Bauman′s preeminent works on the Holocaust and on globalization. The book includes a new extensive interview, anticipating some of Bauman′s forthcoming work.