Beyond Bauman
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Beyond Bauman

Critical engagements and creative excursions

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Beyond Bauman

Critical engagements and creative excursions

About this book

Bringing together leading interpreters of Zygmunt Bauman's sociology, this volume thinks with and beyond Bauman's work in order to show its continued relevance as a theory in its own right, as an object of criticism and as a stepping stone towards a fuller understanding of contemporary society.

The volume deals with some proposed omissions and absences in Bauman's sociology, with chapters comparing Bauman's ideas to those of other prominent social thinkers as well as chapters devoted to teasing out some problems and pitfalls in his work. Paying attention to central concepts and themes of Bauman's thought, authors engage with various aspects of his work, considering potential deficiencies in his ethical perspective, his neglect of the religious dimensions of modernity, his lack of consideration for ethnicity and gender, his overlooking the importance of socialisation in liquid modernity and his problematic argument for individual choice and freedom in a world that is increasingly closed down by consumer capitalism.

Beyond Bauman aspires to show that despite Bauman's status as a key sociological thinker, there are also certain deficiencies in his work demand critical discussion. It will be of use to scholars of sociology, contemporary society, social theory and modernity.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781472476111
eBook ISBN
9781317174813
Edition
1
Topic
Sozialwissenschaften
Subtopic
Soziologie

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of contributors
  7. Preface and acknowledgements
  8. Introduction: Critical engagements and creative excursions with a contemporary sociological icon(oclast)
  9. 1. Aesthetic and relational ethics: Beyond Bauman’s postmodern ethics
  10. 2. Voice and the generalised other in the ethical writings of Zygmunt Bauman
  11. 3. Race, imperialism and gender in Zygmunt Bauman’s sociology: Partial absences, serious consequences
  12. 4. The inevitable clerisy: A postsecular critique of Zygmunt Bauman
  13. 5. Critical theory old and new: Theodor W. Adorno meets Zygmunt Bauman in the shopping mall
  14. 6. Not yet: Probing the potentials and problems in the utopian understandings of Ernst Bloch and Zygmunt Bauman
  15. 7. Exploring modernity’s hidden agenda in Europe: The complementary contributions of Zygmunt Bauman and Ernest Gellner
  16. 8. ‘Getting to Norway’: Do we need to go beyond Zygmunt Bauman and Pierre Bourdieu in order to understand contemporary Norwegian society?
  17. 9. Overcritique and ambiguity in Zygmunt Bauman’s sociology: A long-term perspective
  18. 10. Keeping other options alive: Zygmunt Bauman, hermeneutics and sociological alternatives
  19. 11. Paradoxes and ambivalences of liquid modernity: Zygmunt Bauman and the peculiar solidity of liquidity
  20. Index