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Originally in 1978, this important work, by one of the leading European social theorists, is arguably the best introduction to the hermeneutic tradition as a whole. It is designed to help students of sociology and philosophy place the problems of "understanding social science" in their historical and philosophical context. It does so by presenting the major current in sociological thought as responses to the challenge of hermeneutics. The idea that true knowledge of social life can be attained only if human conduct is seen as meaningful action whose meaning is accordingly grasped has been...

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Soziologen der Gegenwart, sein Werk wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet. Die Verwerfungen des 20. Jahrhunderts - Krieg, Antisemitismus, Flucht und Emigration - prägten sein Leben. Fragmente meines Lebens verbindet Briefe an seine Töchter und andere Texte mit autobiografischem Charakter zu einer fesselnden Erzählung über Baumans Leben, die erstmals auch tiefe Einblicke in das Privatleben des großen Soziologen gewährt.

»Das erste Leben ist vergänglich. Das zweite - das erzählte - bleibt; und diese Form des Seins ist...

Originally published in 1978, this important work, by one of the leading European social theorists, is arguably the best introduction to the hermeneutic tradition as a whole. It is designed to help students of sociology and philosophy place the problems of "understanding social science" in their historical and philosophical context. It does so by presenting the major current in sociological thought as responses to the challenge of hermeneutics. The idea that true knowledge of social life can be attained only if human conduct is seen as meaningful action whose meaning is accordingly grasped...

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that ordinary people can understand--about problems they feel ill equipped to solve. This book is no dry treatise but is instead what Bauman calls "a report from a battlefield," part of the struggle to find new and adequate ways of thinking about the world in which we live. Rather than searching for solutions to what are perhaps the insoluble problems of the modern world, Bauman proposes that we...