Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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