{"product_id":"theory-and-society-selected-writings-volume-3-hardback-9781509550777","title":"Theory and Society; Selected Writings, Volume 3 (Hardback) 9781509550777","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTheory and Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSelected Writings, Volume 3\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eZygmunt Bauman (Author), Thomas Campbell (Edited by), Dariusz Brzezinski (Edited by), Mark Davis (Edited by), Jack Palmer (Edited by), Katarzyna Bartoszynska (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509550777, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.454 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“The real strength of the selected texts in this volume is the insight that they give into the ideas that Bauman engaged with in his early career, exploring possible links between agency and structure.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritical Sociology\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\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\"\u003eThe breadth and depth of Zygmunt Bauman’s engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part because many of his early writings were in Polish and never translated into English, and in part because many important pieces appeared in edited volumes and journals that are not readily available. This volume brings together hitherto unknown or rare pieces by Bauman on the theme of theory and society and also makes available previously unpublished material from the Bauman Archive at the University of Leeds.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A consistent theme of Bauman’s work was his sustained engagement with humanism, and this provides a unifying thread in the pieces brought together in this volume.  Here Bauman reflects on some of the core concepts of sociology, examines the work of a wide range of social theorists, from Durkheim and Gramsci to Agnes Heller and C. Wright Mills, and addresses an array of key ideas and issues including inequality, identity and social change.  A substantial introduction by the editors provides readers with a lucid guide through this material and develops connections to Bauman’s other works. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is the third and final volume in a series of books that make available the lesser-known writings of one of the most influential social thinkers of our time.  It will be of interest to students and scholars across the arts, humanities and social sciences, and to a wider readership.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEditors’ Introduction: Theory and Society: Zygmunt Bauman a Humanist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Mills: The Issue of Sociological Imagination (1961)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Antonio Gramsci: Or Sociology in Action (1963)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Creative Personality and Adaptive Personality (1965)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Uses of Information: When Social Information Becomes Desired (1971)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Is the Science of the Possible Possible? (c.1974)\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Importance of Being a Marxist (1987)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Athens and Jerusalem: Variations on the Theme (c.1990)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Narrating Modernity (1994)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Do We Need the Theory of Change? (1999)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Repairing the Broken Middle (2000)\u003cbr\u003e 11. How to be a Sociologist and a Humanist: Sociology as a vocation in liquid-modern times (2006)\u003cbr\u003e 12. 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