The sociology of Zygmunt Bauman : challenges and critique /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008. |
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| Description: | ix, 245 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7182148 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman - challenge and critique
- Part 1. Methodological Issues
- Bauman on metaphors - a harbinger of humanistic hybrid sociology
- Bauman on ambivalence - fully acknowledging the ambiguity of ambivalence
- Part 2. Ethics
- Bauman on ethics - intimate ethics for a global world?
- Bauman on genocide - modernity and mass murder: from classification to annihilation?
- Part 3. Social Integration
- Bauman on freedom - consumer freedom as the integration mechanism of liquid society
- Bauman on consumerism - living the marked-mediated life
- Bauman on globalization - the human consequences of a liquid world
- Bauman on strangers - unwanted peculiarities
- Part 4. Politics
- Bauman on politics - stillborn democracy
- Bauman on power - from 'solid' to 'light'?
- Bauman on Utopia - welcome to the hunting zone
- Postscript: Bauman on Bauman - pro domo sua
- Index
