{"product_id":"the-bauman-reader-paperback-softback-9780631214922","title":"The Bauman Reader (Paperback \/ softback) 9780631214922","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Bauman Reader\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Beilharz (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631214922, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 August 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e380 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.562 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\"\u003ci\u003eThe Bauman Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Beilharz, provides an excellent condensation of the sociologist's remarkably diverse writing in social theory, politics, and philosophy. The \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e scoops up many of Bauman's most significant work on the nature of culture, intellectuals, morality, ethics, modernity, postmodernity, and globalisation.\" -- Anthony Elliott, \u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This anthology provides the possibility for students of social theory and postmodernity finally to 'get a handle' on the multifaceted, deeply veined work of Zygmunt Bauman. Beilharz makes a real contribution by providing organizational categories for Bauman's diverse writing. Further, his broadly reasoned introduction supplies a biographical, historical, and theoretical framework for making overall sense of what Bauman has been up to during his distinguished and highly original career.\" \u003ci\u003eJeffrey Alexander, University of California at Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most enterprising minds in the contemporary social sciences. Beilharz's selection provides a full picture of Bauman as an analyst of class, as a moral philosopher, and as a critic of globalization. The image that emerges is one of a European intellectual of the old style who is entirely up to the exigencies of our time.\" \u003ci\u003ePeter Wagner, European University Institute\u003c\/i\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\"\u003eThe remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman range across a large number of issues in sociology, politics, history, and cultural studies. This is the first collection of Bauman's writings that covers the entire breadth of his work, and includes a summarizing essay and commentary by editor Peter Beilharz. As a whole, this is not only a guide to Bauman's way of thinking, but a guide to making sense of our times through the major work of one of the most important figures in late-twentieth-century social thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: Peter Beilharz: Reading Zygmunt Bauman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Telos Interview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Socialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 The Historical Location of Socalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Modern Times, Modern Marxism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Communism: A Postmortem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Class and Power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Class: Before and After.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Gamekeepers Turned Gardeners.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 The Rise of the Interpreter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Hermeneutics and Critical Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 The Challenge of Hermeneutics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Critical Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Sociology and the Postmodern.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 The Re-Enchantment of the World, or, How Can One Narrate Postmodernity?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Figures of Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Making and Unmaking of Strangers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Parvenu and Pariah: The Heroes and Victims of Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Century of Camps.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Sociology After the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Dictatorship Over Needs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 A Century of Camps?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Ambivalence and Ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 The Quest for Order.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 The Social Construction of Ambivalence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Globalization and the New Poor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 On Glocalization: Or Globalization for Some, Localization for Some Others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 From the Work Ethic to the Aesthetic of Consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. 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