The Contemporary Bauman

ISBN-13: 9780415409698 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 278 str.

Anthony Elliott

Opis

This text covers Bauman's contribution to sociology and social theory. This ideal teaching text analyzes Bauman's shift from a sociology of postmodernity to liquid modernity, and provides a critical assessment of the contemporary Bauman, appraising his novel theory of liquid modernity in terms of its implications for self-identity, interpersonal relationships, culture, communications, and the broad-ranging institutional transformations associated with globalization. In addition to various extracts from Bauman's work, the book also contains a spirited reply from Zygmunt Bauman to both his sympathetic and unsympathetic critics. Bauman concludes by providing a new perspectives on his theory of liquid modernity, its differentiation from the modernity/postmodernity debate and its relation to current developments in contemporary social theory.

Spis treści

Editor’s Introduction Anthony Elliott.  Critique: Privatised and Disarmed Zygmunt Bauman  Part 1: Liquid Modernity.  On Being Light and Liquid Zygmunt Bauman.  From Heavy to Light Modernity Zygmunt Bauman  1. The Theory of Liquid Modernity: A Critique of Bauman's Recent Sociology Anthony Elliott  2. From Postmodernity to Liquid Modernity: What’s in a Metaphor? Larry Ray  3. Bauman’s Irony Keith Tester  Part 2: Liquid Love.  Falling in and out of Love Zygmunt Bauman.  On Living in a Liquid Modern World Zygmunt Bauman  4. Gender and Sexualities in Liquid Modernity Ann Branaman  5. Relatively Liquid Interpersonal Relationships in Flexible Work Life Poul Poder  6. Liquid Love: Psychoanalysing Mania Janet Sayers  Part 3: Liquid Life.  To Each Waste its Dumping Site Zygmunt Bauman.  The Reality Principle and the Pleasure Principle Strike a Deal Zygmunt Bauman  7. Liquid Waste, Being Human, and Bodily Death Charles Lemert and Makenna Goodman  8. Solid Modernity, Liquid Utopia: Liquid Modernity, Solid Utopia: Ubiquitous Utopianism as a Trademark of the Work of Zygmunt Bauman Michael Hviid Jacobsen  9. On Bauman’s Sociology of Suffering: Questions for Thinking Iain Wilkinson.  Afterword on Writing: On Writing Sociology Zygmunt Bauman

O autorze

Anthony Elliott is Professor of Sociology at Flinders University, Australia. His book, The New Individualism (2005), written with Charles Lemert, is also published by Routledge.