{"product_id":"history-and-politics-selected-writings-volume-2-hardback-9781509550746","title":"History and Politics; Selected Writings, Volume 2 (Hardback) 9781509550746","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHistory and Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSelected Writings, Volume 2\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eZygmunt Bauman (Author), Mark Davis (Edited by), Jack Palmer (Edited by), Dariusz Brzezinski (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\"\u003e9781509550746, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 March 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.8 x 3 cm, 0.544 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“We live in an age when in every decade one day occurs – such as 9\/11 or 24 February – after which matters taken firmly for granted yesterday are abruptly swept away. It is the rare sociological genius of Zygmunt Bauman that helps us to make critical sense of such liquidity.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaus Offe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Among émigré intellectuals, ranging from the Frankfurt School to Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin, Zygmunt Bauman stands out for his intimate knowledge and experience of 'really existing socialisms' and their demise after 1989. In this new essay collection, drawn from his archives, we experience the sizzling quality of his insights and the beauty of his prose as he reflects on bureaucracy, class vs status, the new anti-Semitism and much else.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeyla Benhabib\u003cbr\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\u003eA victim of the Nazis, then the communists. Twice a refugee, yet always remaining a committed socialist. In countless ways, Zygmunt Bauman lived the political upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He was an actor within them. Bauman’s own lived history informed his politics, which found expression in varying degrees in his sociology, as he wrote extensively on socialism, democracy, bureaucracy, morality, Europe and the Jewish experience. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together hitherto unknown or rare pieces by Bauman on the themes of history and politics by drawing upon 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 second 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\u003eHistory and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to students and scholars across the arts, humanities and social sciences, and to a wider readership. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSeries Introduction page ix \u003cp\u003eTranslator’s Note xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors’ Introduction: History and Politics in the Sociological Imagination of Zygmunt Bauman xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Tractate on Bureaucracy (1957) 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 On the Political Mechanisms of Bourgeois Democracy (1961) 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Limitations of ‘Perfect Planning’ (1966) 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The End of Polish Jewry: A Sociological Review (1969) 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 At the Crossroads in a World at the Crossroads (c.1970) 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Between State and Society (1973) 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 On the Maturation of Socialism (1981) 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Exit Visas and Entry Tickets: Paradoxes of Jewish Assimilation (1988) 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Holocaust: Fifty Years Later (1994) 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Names of Suffering, Names of Shame (2001) 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Britain after Blair, or Thatcherism Consolidated (2007) 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Panic among the Parasites, or For Whom the Bell Tolls (2010) 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Haunting Spectre of ‘Westphalian Sovereignty’ (2012) 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Europe’s Adventure: Still Unfinished? (2016) 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 228\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441811190040,"sku":"9781509550746","price":43.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509550746.jpg?v=1785026628","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/history-and-politics-selected-writings-volume-2-hardback-9781509550746","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}