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Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture
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One of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) made reflection on culture a fundamental part of his academic work. He published a substantial number of papers on the topic, and many of his concepts would go on to significantly influence the social sciences and humanities.
Bauman began his theoretical studies on culture when working at the University of Warsaw and continued them all his life. Inspired by the many intellectual currents he encountered over his more than six decades of work, Bauman wrote on culture in the contexts of such issues as Marxism and socialism, modernity and the Holocaust, postmodernity and liquid modernity, and contemporary nostalgia. In Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture Dariusz Brzezi?ski uses the evolution of Bauman's theory of culture as a prism through which to offer a comparative analysis, putting Bauman's work in conversation with the writings of other contemporary intellectuals.
In this first comprehensive and critical assessment of Bauman's lifelong work on culture, Brzezi?ski includes Bauman's Polish-language papers and books, as well as his works discovered only posthumously, presenting them to an international audience.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Meaning of the Theory of Culture in the Work of Zygmunt Bauman
- Chapter 1 Continuities and Changes in Zygmunt Bauman’s Theory of Culture
- Chapter 2 Theory of Culture in the Polish Period of Zygmunt Bauman’s Work
- Chapter 3 Two Faces of Praxis: Structuration and Transformation
- Chapter 4 From Systemic to Repertoire Model of Culture: The Theory of Culture between Modernity and Postmodernity
- Chapter 5 The Theory of Culture in Liquid Modernity
- Conclusion: The Legacy of Zygmunt Bauman’s Theory of Culture
- Notes
- References
- Index