Full Description
The Routledge International Handbook on Zygmunt Bauman is a major, state of the art collection dedicated to the work and ideas of one of the most renowned intellectuals of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
Bringing together eminent scholars in social sciences and humanities from all over the world, it presents and engages with the most important characteristics of Bauman's work and life, the key themes of his oeuvre, the relationship between his ideas and intellectuals' innovations in social sciences and humanities, as well as the application of his work to the analyses of the most pressing contemporary challenges. The volume draws inspiration from significant advances in the understanding of Bauman's biography and the development of his personal archive, as well as the ongoing project of translating Bauman's Polish-language works into English. The handbook, moreover, is significantly international in scope, reflecting Bauman's status as a global social thinker. The book critically interrogates the reception of Bauman's ideas, including in regions which have been marginalised in Bauman studies. It will also foreground contemporary developments in the literature on Zygmunt Bauman and showcases the work of an emerging new generation of Bauman scholars who are engaging with and extending Bauman's work in novel directions.
This important new volume will appeal to a new generation of readers who might find in Bauman a means of orienting themselves in the urgencies of the present conjuncture: climate change, digital society, economic crisis, intensification of migration flows, and more. It will therefore appeal to a wide international readership, including scholars and students of sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies, as well as historians, and literary and art scholars, and contemporary humanities and social sciences more broadly.
Contents
The Life and Work of Zygmunt Bauman: Entanglements - Interpretations - Legacies
Preamble to Part I: Life and Work
Chapter 1. The Traps of Engagement, Critical Sociology, and Cultural Theory: The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman, 1953-1968
Chapter 2. Bauman in Israel: Life and Work, 1968-1971
Chapter 3. On the Margins: Bauman at the University of Leeds, 1971-91
Chapter 4. Globalizing Bauman: 1991-2017, And After
Chapter 5. The Autonomous Society Needs Autonomous Individuals: The Goals of Bauman's Sociology of Freedom
Chapter 6. 'On Writing, on Writing Sociology': Zygmunt Bauman's Poetic Imagination
Preamble to Part II: Key Themes
Chapter 7. Zygmunt Bauman's Theory of Culture: From the Revisionist Turn to the Nostalgic Turn
Chapter 8. Theorizing Modernity: Zygmunt Bauman's Critical Diagnosis of the Changing Times
Chapter 9. Morality in the Humanist Thought of Zygmunt Bauman: From the Moral Party of Two to Cosmopolitan Responsibility
Chapter 10. Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology of Freedom: Freedom as a Differential, Ambivalent, and Moral Blessing
Chapter 11. Politics: In Search of Human Freedom and Dignity
Chapter 12. Globalization and Its Discontents: Tourists, Vagabonds and Nomads in the Work of Zygmunt Bauman
Chapter 13. Community: Chasing Elusive Togetherness
Chapter 14. Un-Consuming Life: Sociological Imagination for the Society of Consumers
Chapter 15. The Power of the Past and the Future: On Nostalgia and Utopia in the Work of Zygmunt Bauman
Chapter 16. Deconstructions of Death: From Modern Medicine to the Postmodern Majestic Moment
Preamble to Part III: Bauman in Dialogue
Chapter 17. Retrotopia and the Universality of Hope: On Bauman's Reception and Application in Japan and South Korea
Chapter 18. Bauman's Critical Sociology and Postcolonial Discourse: The Arab Context
Chapter 19. Zygmunt Bauman's Neo-Marxist Critical Theory: A Chinese Perspective
Chapter 20. Looking at Contemporary Mass Violence through Bauman's Window
Chapter 21 Zygmunt Bauman and the New Mobilities Paradigm
Chapter 22 Bauman on Nature
Preamble to Part IV: Bauman and Contemporary Challenges
Chapter 23. Anxiety: The Liquid Modern Emotion
Chapter 24. 'Strangers at our Door': Zygmunt Bauman's Evolving Perspectives on the Migration Crisis
Chapter 25. Zygmunt Bauman on Surveillance in the Algorithmic Condition
Chapter 26 The Class, Capital, and the Place We Ultimately Occupy: Homeless Tourism in Buenos Aires City
Chapter 27 Between Love and Community: Friendship, Intimacy and the Security-Freedom Paradox
Chapter 28. Reclaiming Ethical Agency: Adiaphorization in a Time of Climate Crisis
Chapter 29. On Racism in Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity
