Bauman Reader P - Beilharz

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Résumé :
The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman range across a large number of issues in sociology, politics, history, and cultural studies. This is the first collection of Bauman's writings that covers the entire breadth of his work, and includes a summarizing essay and commentary by editor Peter Beilharz. As a whole, this is not only a guide to Bauman's way of thinking, but a guide to making sense of our times through the major work of one of the most important figures in late-twentieth-century social thought...

Biographie:
Peter Beilharz 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)...

Sommaire:
Preface.

1. Introduction: Peter Beilharz: Reading Zygmunt Bauman.

2. The Telos Interview.

3. Socialism.

3.1 The Historical Location of Socalism.

3.2 Modern Times, Modern Marxism.

3.3 Communism: A Postmortem.

4. Class and Power.

4.1 Class: Before and After.

4.2 Gamekeepers Turned Gardeners.

4.3 The Rise of the Interpreter.

5. Hermeneutics and Critical Theory.

5.1 The Challenge of Hermeneutics.

5.2 Critical Theory.

5.3 Modernity.

6. Sociology and the Postmodern.

6.1 A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity.

6.2 The Re-Enchantment of the World, or, How Can One Narrate Postmodernity?.

7. Figures of Modernity.

7.1 Making and Unmaking of Strangers.

7.2 Parvenu and Pariah: The Heroes and Victims of Modernity.

8. The Century of Camps.

8.1 Sociology After the Holocaust.

8.2 Dictatorship Over Needs.

8.3 A Century of Camps?.

9. Ambivalence and Ethics.

9.1 The Quest for Order.

9.2 The Social Construction of Ambivalence.

10. Globalization and the New Poor.

10.1 On Glocalization: Or Globalization for Some, Localization for Some Others.

10.2 From the Work Ethic to the Aesthetic of Consumption.

11. The Journey Never Ends, Zygmunt Bauman Talks With Peter Beilharz.

Index.