The New Bauman Reader -

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Résumé :
Zygmunt Bauman has written more than seventy books over five decades, most taking a single subject and finding doors to open it in all directions. His work is an essential reference point in sociology, but it is time that everyone caught up with him. In this book Tony Blackshaw doesn't just tell us that Bauman is a massive star in sociology, he demonstrates why his light shines brighter than that of almost any other intellectual figure in the world today by offering his readers deep insights into the 'Bauman Effect'. The new Bauman reader is two books in one. On the one hand, it is a critical introduction to a vital and inspiring sociologist who stands against the predictable in 'majority' sociology to draw out daring and new insights from which we can all learn. On the other, it is an anthology of his work chosen with the specific aim of guiding readers, whether undergraduates, postgraduates, academics or general readers to Bauman's original way of 'thinking sociologically', which is as irresistible as the 'liquid' metaphor that guides it....

Biographie:
Tony Blackshaw is Reader at Sheffield Hallam University...

Sommaire:
Preface Setting up the encounter Introduction - Tony Blackshaw Part I: Thinking sociologically Introduction - Tony Blackshaw 1. The motive for metaphor - Michael-Hviid Jacobsen 2. Talking sociology - Zygmunt Bauman in conversation with Michael-Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester 3. Writing sociology - Zygmunt Bauman 4. This is a liquid modern world - Zygmunt Bauman in conversation with Nicholas Gane Part II: Re-thinking the unit-ideas of sociology 5. Class - Zygmunt Bauman 6. Community - Tony Blackshaw 7. Freedom - Zygmunt Bauman 8. Utopia - Zygmunt Bauman 9. Social inequality - Zygmunt Bauman 10. Bureaucracy - Zygmunt Bauman 11. Culture - Zygmunt Bauman Part III: Modernity from a 'liquid' perspective 12. Consumerism - Tony Blackshaw 13. Individualization - Zygmunt Bauman 14. Happiness - Zygmunt Bauman 15. Media - Zygmunt Bauman 16. Identity and globalization - Zygmunt Bauman 17. Liquid power - Zygmunt Bauman in conversation with Mark Hauugard 18. Liquid fear - Zygmunt Bauman 19. Liquid surveillance - Slawomir Czapnik The continuing task: Epilogue 20. 'Liquid modernity' fifteen years after - Zygmunt Bauman...