Full Description
Zygmunt Bauman has written more than seventy books over five decades, most taking a single subject and finding doors to open it in all directions. His work is an essential reference point in sociology, but it is time that everyone caught up with him. In this book Tony Blackshaw doesn't just tell us that Bauman is a massive star in sociology, he demonstrates why his light shines brighter than that of almost any other intellectual figure in the world today by offering his readers deep insights into the 'Bauman Effect'.
The new Bauman reader is two books in one. On the one hand, it is a critical introduction to a vital and inspiring sociologist who stands against the predictable in 'majority' sociology to draw out daring and new insights from which we can all learn. On the other, it is an anthology of his work chosen with the specific aim of guiding readers, whether undergraduates, postgraduates, academics or general readers to Bauman's original way of 'thinking sociologically', which is as irresistible as the 'liquid' metaphor that guides it.
Contents
Preface
Setting up the encounter
Introduction - Tony Blackshaw
Part I: Thinking sociologically
Introduction - Tony Blackshaw
1. The motive for metaphor - Michael-Hviid Jacobsen
2. Talking sociology - Zygmunt Bauman in conversation with Michael-Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester
3. Writing sociology - Zygmunt Bauman
4. This is a "liquid modern" world - Zygmunt Bauman in conversation with Nicholas Gane
Part II: Re-thinking the unit-ideas of sociology
Introduction - Tony Blackshaw
5. Class - Zygmunt Bauman
6. Community - Tony Blackshaw
7. Freedom - Zygmunt Bauman
8. Utopia - Zygmunt Bauman
9. Social inequality - Zygmunt Bauman
10. Bureaucracy - Zygmunt Bauman
11. Culture - Zygmunt Bauman
Part III: Modernity from a 'liquid' perspective
Introduction - Tony Blackshaw
12. Consumerism - Tony Blackshaw
13. Individualization - Zygmunt Bauman
14. Happiness - Zygmunt Bauman
15. Media - Zygmunt Bauman
16. Identity and globalization - Zygmunt Bauman
17. Liquid power - Zygmunt Bauman in conversation with Mark Hauugard
18. Liquid fear - Zygmunt Bauman
19. Liquid surveillance - Slawomir Czapnik
The continuing task: Epilogue
20. 'Liquid modernity' fifteen years after - Zygmunt Bauman
