The contemporary Bauman / edited by Anthony Elliott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elliott, Anthony, 1964-

Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017.

Bauman, Zygmunt.

Sociology.

Postmodernism--Social aspects.

Postmodernism.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

ix, 275 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

The recent work of Zygmunt Bauman has received extraordinary attention in the social sciences. Widely recognized as one of the world's most influential social theorists and politically engaged public intellectuals, Bauman's theory of "liquid modernity" presents a dramatic, dark portrait of the contemporary age. This is the first book to provide a detailed critical assessment of Bauman's liquid turn in sociology. Anthony Elliott has selected representative extracts from Bauman's recent path-making work, ensuring The Contemporary Bauman provides critical appraisals of the theory of liquid modernity in terms of its implications for self-identity, interpersonal relationships, culture, communications, and the broad-ranging institutional transformations associated with globalization.

Elliott has brought together a highly distinguished group of international contributors comprising of Ann Branaman, Makenna Goodman, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Charles Lemert, Poul Poder, Larry Ray, Janet Sayers, Keith Tester and Iain Wilkinson, thus making this volume an integral tool for both undergraduates and postgraduates studying contemporary social theory and cultural studies.

Contents:

Critique : privatized and disarmed / Zygmunt Bauman

On being light and liquid / Zygmunt Bauman

From heavy to light modernity / Zygmunt Bauman

The theory of liquid modernity : a critique of Bauman's recent sociology / Anthony Elliott

From postmodernity to liquid modernity : what's in a metaphor? / Larry Ray

Bauman's irony / Keith Tester

Falling in and out of love / Zygmunt Bauman

On living in a liquid modern world / Zygmunt Bauman

Gender and sexualities in liquid modernity / Ann Branaman

Relatively liquid interpersonal relationships in flexible work life / Poul Poder

Liquid love : psychoanalysing mania / Janet Sayers

To each waste its dumping site / Zygmunt Bauman

The reality principle and the pleasure principle strike a deal / Zygmunt Bauman

Liquid waste, being human, and bodily death / Charles Lemert, Makenna Goodman

Solid modernity, liquid utopia - liquid modernity, solid utopia : ubiquitous utopianism as a trademark of the work of Zygmunt Bauman / Michael Hviid Jacobsen

On Bauman's sociology of suffering : questions for thinking / Iain Wilkinson

On writing; on writing sociology / Zygmunt Bauman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415409691

0415409683

0203946677

9780415409698

9780415409681

9780203946671

OCLC:

76937397