Zygmunt Bauman Thinking Sociologically
In this lucid, stimulating and original book, Zygmunt Bauman and Tim May explore the underlying assumptions and tacit expectations which structure our view of the world. The authors elucidate key concepts in sociology: for example, individualism versus community, and privilege versus deprivation. While charting a course through sociology's main concerns, Bauman and May also examine the applicability of sociology to everyday life.
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Zygmunt Bauman Modernity and Ambivalence
Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In this book, now available in paperback, Bauman argues that our postmodern age is the time for reconciliation with ambivalence, we must learn how to live in an incurably ambiguous world.
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ПодробнееKeith Tester Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the leading figures in contemporary social thought. His work ranges across issues of ethics, culture and politics. It never forgets that social thought ought to help men and women make sense of their lives and aspire towards something different. His books and essays always focus on the here and now: violence and moral indifference, globalization, consumerism, politics and individualization. They cast a sharp eye on the panaceas of ‘there is no alternative'; the embrace of community and the fads of the ‘counselling boom'; through which men and women are told that they can achieve biographical solutions to what are, in fact, systemic problems. In this new book, Zygmunt Bauman and Keith Tester engage in five accessible conversations that uncover and explore the assumptions and commitments underpinning Bauman's ground-breaking social thought. The conversations show how those commitments have influenced Bauman's analyses of modernity, postmodernity and ‘liquid modernity'. The book ranges widely, from autobiographical reflection through to pointers for the understanding and future of Bauman's social thought. The conversations illustrate the moral substance of Bauman's refusal to accept that the world cannot be made different. They show why social thought is a human necessity. Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman is a book which will offer fresh insight into Bauman's work for those who are familiar with it, and provide an engaging and helpful entry point for those who are new to it.
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ПодробнееZygmunt Bauman Legislators and Interpreters
The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity. The theme of the book is that the tasks of intellectuals change from being 'legislators' to 'interpreters' with the transition from modernity to post-modernity. The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity. The theme of the book is that the tasks of intellectuals change from being 'legislators' to 'interpreters' with the transition from modernity to post-modernity.
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ПодробнееZygmunt Bauman Identity
This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we grapple with the insecurity and uncertainty of liquid modernity, Bauman argues that our socio-political, cultural, professional, religious and sexual identities are undergoing a process of continual transformation. Identities the world over have become more precarious than ever: we live in an era of constant change and disposability – whether it's last season’s outfit, or car, or even partner – and our identities as a result have become transient and deeply elusive. In a world of rapid global change where national borders are increasingly eroded, our identities are in a state of continuous flux. Identity – a notion that by its very nature is elusive and ambivalent – has become a key concept for understanding the changing nature of social life and personal experience in our contemporary, liquid modern age. In this brief book, Zygmunt Bauman explains compellingly why this is so.
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ПодробнееZygmunt Bauman Making the Familiar Unfamiliar
Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be the pre-eminent social thinker for which he became world renowned, a thinker who never shied away from addressing the great issues of our time and always strove to interrogate received wisdom and common sense, to make the familiar unfamiliar. <br /><br />As in Bauman’s work more generally, the personal and the political are interwoven in this book. Bauman’s life, which followed the same trajectory as the social and political upheavals of the 20th century, left its trace on his thought. Bauman describes his upbringing in Poland, military service in the Red Army, working for the Polish Secret Service after the war and expulsion from Poland in 1968, providing personal accounts of the historical events on which he brings his social and political insights to bear. His reflections on history, identity, Jewishness, morality, happiness and love are rooted in his own personal journey through the turbulent events of the 20th century to which he bore witness. <br /><br />These last conversations shed new light on one of the greatest social thinkers of our time, offering a more personal perspective on a man who changed our way of thinking about the modern world.
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ПодробнееZygmunt Bauman Europa
Zygmunt Bauman tritt mit seinen Beobachtungen und Analysen zur Zukunft Europas den Beweis an, dass Europa durchaus die Möglichkeiten hat, die gewaltigen Herausforderungen des einundzwanzigsten Jahrhunderts zu meistern. Er plädiert in seinen tief in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte verwurzelten Essays für ein Festhalten am Projekt Europa. «Sinn und Wahnsinn der Moderne» – eine Laudatio von Ulrich Beck aufden großen Soziologen und Philosophen beschließt den Band. Mehr als je zuvor benötigt unser von Konflikten geschüttelter Planet jene Qualitäten, die insbesondere Europa in seiner mehr als zweitausendjährigen Geschichte erworben hat: die Fähigkeit zur Selbstkritik, zu Forschung und Experiment und zur Einsicht, dass es alternative und bessere Formen des menschlichen Miteinanders geben kann. Und sein Engagement, nach Möglichkeiten und Wegen zu suchen, das Erkannte in die Praxis umzusetzen. Zurzeit jedoch zeigt sich Europa in der sich schnell ändernden Welt unsicher: ohne Visionen, in seinen Ressourcen begrenzt und ohne Willenskraft, sich dieser Aufgabe zu stellen. Zygmunt Bauman tritt den Beweis an, dass Europa mit seinen schwer erkämpften historischen Lektionen eine wichtige Rolle spielen kann beim Wechsel von einer Hobbes'schen Welt, in der jeder des anderen Feind ist, zu der des friedlichen Miteinanders der Menschheit, die Kant vorschwebte.
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