The Bauman Reader

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"This anthology provides the possibility for students of social theory and postmodernity finally to 'get a handlé' on the multifaceted, deeply veined work of Zygmunt Bauman. Beilharz makes a real contribution by providing organizational categories for Bauman's diverse writing, Further, his broadly reasoned introduction supplies a biographical, historical, and theoretical framework for making overall sense of what Bauman has been up to during his distinguished and highly originál career." jeffrey alexander, University of California at Los Angeles "Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most enterprising minds in the contemporary social sciences. Beilharz's selection provides a full picture of Bauman as an analyst of class, as a morál philosopher, and as a critic of globalization. The image that emerges is one of a European intellectual of the old style who is entirely up to the exigencies of our time." peter wagner, European University Institute The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt... Tovább

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"This anthology provides the possibility for students of social theory and postmodernity finally to 'get a handlé' on the multifaceted, deeply veined work of Zygmunt Bauman. Beilharz makes a real contribution by providing organizational categories for Bauman's diverse writing, Further, his broadly reasoned introduction supplies a biographical, historical, and theoretical framework for making overall sense of what Bauman has been up to during his distinguished and highly originál career." jeffrey alexander, University of California at Los Angeles "Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most enterprising minds in the contemporary social sciences. Beilharz's selection provides a full picture of Bauman as an analyst of class, as a morál philosopher, and as a critic of globalization. The image that emerges is one of a European intellectual of the old style who is entirely up to the exigencies of our time." peter wagner, European University Institute The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman rangé 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 alsó selected essays from Bauman's preeminent works on the Holocaust and on globalization. The book includes a new extensive interview, anticipating somé of Bauman's forthcoming work. PETER BEILHARZ The editor 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). Cover design by Design Deluxe, Bath Printed in Great Britain Vissza