Bauman before postmodernity : invitation, conversations and annotated bibliography 1953-1989

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Bauman before postmodernity : invitation, conversations and annotated bibliography 1953-1989

Keith Tester & Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Aalborg University Press, c2005

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-220)

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This book is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the work of Zygmunt Bauman. It contains original conversations with Bauman and a detailed guide to his thought, written by two of his leading commentators. Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most important critics of our times. He has changed the way we think about globalisation, the Holocaust, ethics and our sense of self. He came to prominence in the 1980s, when he made sociologists and cultural analysts think seriously about post-modernity. This is when his work started to reach a wide audience. But by that time he already had more than thirty years of publications behind him. He had also lived a life which had been shaped by the main events of the European twentieth century; he had been a soldier against Nazism and an exile from the Communist state in Poland. This book rescues Bauman's roots from obscurity and shows how they shaped the work for which he became well-known. In this book, Bauman talks for the first time about his emergence as a sociologist and reflects on the times in which he was destined to live. The book also contains the most thorough catalogue of Bauman's work up to the end of the 1980s, and in-depth discussions of his academic essays from this period.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Invitation: The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman
  • The Stranger and Outsider in Our Midst
  • On Thinking and Writing in Exile
  • Bauman's Biography -- The Basics
  • The Backbone of Bauman
  • Sources of Sociological Imagination
  • The Utopian of Hope
  • Part I: The End of the Beginning of a Sociological Imagination
  • 1960s Conversation
  • 1960s Annotated Bibliography
  • Part II: In the Shadow of Socialism
  • 1970s Conversation
  • 1970s Annotated Bibliography
  • Part III: The Beginning of the End of Post-modernity
  • 1980s Conversation
  • 1980s Annotated Bibliography
  • Conclusion: The Accomplishment of Zygmunt Bauman
  • Not Yet Zygmunt Bauman
  • Human Values
  • Speaking to the Present
  • Forever Not Yet
  • List of References

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