{"product_id":"culture-and-art-selected-writings-volume-1-hardback-9781509545445","title":"Culture and Art; Selected Writings, Volume 1 (Hardback) 9781509545445","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCulture and Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSelected Writings, Volume 1\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eZygmunt Bauman (Author), Dariusz Brzezinski (Edited by), Mark Davis (Edited by), Jack Palmer (Edited by), Thomas Campbell (Edited by), Katarzyna Bartoszynska (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509545445, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 June 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Zygmunt Bauman’s work on culture and art is important in aiding our understanding of the origins of his best-known ideas, as well as in offering a plethora of new ones. They all have great implications for understanding the social world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Ritzer, University of Maryland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A set of beguiling essays. Bauman's ideas remain fresh and remarkably stimulating. He teases out the cultural contradictions of the late modern age with extraordinary delicacy.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Elliott, University of South Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This is fascinating reading.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThesis Eleven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A remarkable tool for understanding the nuances of an extensive and nuanced corpus of writings.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheory, Culture and Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The three volumes of \u003ci\u003eSelected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e offer a backbone to all this work of scholarship and enthusiasm. A remarkable achievement, indeed, both by the author, and by his editors and interpreters. A valuable resource for research, as well as a companion for a dip, a chance to see that mind at work once more: the wanderer above the sea of fog, then and now.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Beilharz, \u003ci\u003eThesis Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sociological imagination and the artistic imagination have been historically intertwined, at once reciprocal and conflicting, complementary and tensional.  This connection is nowhere more apparent than in the work of Zygmunt Bauman.  His conception and practice of sociology were always infused with a literary and artistic sensibility.  He wrote extensively on the relationship between sociology and the arts, and especially on sociology and literature; he frequently drew on literary writers in his exploration and elucidation of sociological problems; and he was an avid and passionate consumer and practitioner of art, especially film and photography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together hitherto unknown or rare pieces by Bauman on the themes of culture and art, including previously unpublished material from the Bauman Archive at the University of Leeds.  A substantial introduction by the editors provides readers with a lucid guide through this material and develops connections to Bauman’s other works.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first volume in a series of books that will make available the lesser-known writings of one of the most influential social thinkers of our time, \u003ci\u003eCulture and Art\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to students and scholars across the arts, humanities and social sciences, and to a wider readership.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslator’s Note\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.           Culture and Society: Semantic and Genetic Connections (1966)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.           Notes Beyond Time (1967)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.           Marx and the Contemporary Theory of Culture (1968)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.           Culture, Values and Science of Society (1972)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.           Jorge Louis Borges, or Why Understanding is Not What it Seems to Be (1976)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.           Thinking Photographically (1983-1985)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.           Einstein Meets Magritte: Postmodernity is Born (1995)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.           Assimilation into Exile: The Jew as a Polish Writer (1996)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.           Beyond the Borders of Interpretative Anarchism (1997)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.         On Art, Death and Postmodernity - And What They Do To Each Other (1998)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.         Actors and Spectators (2004)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.         Listening to the Past, Talking to the Past…(2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.         The Spectre of Barbarism – Then and Now (2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 14.        A Few (Erratic) Thoughts on the Morganatic Liaison of Theory and Literature  (2010)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.         On Love and Hate... 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