Beyond Bauman: Critical Engagements and Creative Excursions

ISBN-13: 9780367595807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 278 str.

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Opis

Bringing together leading interpreters of Zygmunt Bauman’s sociology, this volume thinks with, against or beyond Bauman’s work in order to show its continued relevance as a theory in its own right, as an object of criticism and as a stepping stone towards a fuller understanding of contemporary society.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction Beyond Bauman

- Critical Engagements and Creative Excursions with a Contemporary Sociological Icon(oclast)

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Chapter 1 Aesthetic and Relational Ethics

- Beyond Bauman’s Postmodern Ethics

Nicholas Hookway and Douglas Ezzy

Chapter 2 Voice and the Generalized Other in the Ethical Writings of Zygmunt Bauman

Shaun Best

Chapter 3 Race, Imperialism and Gender in Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociology

- Partial Absences, Serious Consequences

Ali Rattansi

Chapter 4 The Inevitable Clerisy

- A Postsecular Critique of Zygmunt Bauman

John Milbank

Chapter 5 Critical Theory Old and New

- Theodor W. Adorno Meets Zygmunt Bauman in the Shopping Mall

Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Claus D. Hansen

Chapter 6 Not Yet

- Probing the Potentials and Problems in the Utopian Understandings of Ernst Bloch and Zygmunt Bauman

Martin Aidnik & Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Chapter 7 Exploring Modernity’s Hidden Agenda in Europe

- The Complementary Contributions of Zygmunt Bauman and Ernest Gellner

Dennis Smith

Chapter 8 "Getting to Norway"

- Do We Need to Go Beyond Zygmunt Bauman and Pierre Bourdieu in Order to Understand Contemporary Norwegian Society?

Rune Åkvik Nilsen

Chapter 9 Overcritique and Ambiguity in Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociology

- A Long-Term Perspective

Richard Kilminster

Chapter 10 Keeping Other Options Alive

- Zygmunt Bauman, Hermeneutics and Sociological Alternatives

Matt Dawson

Chapter 11 Paradoxes and Ambivalences of Liquid Modernity

- Zygmunt Bauman and the Peculiar Solidity of Liquidity

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

O autorze

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published extensively on the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman.