Socialism: The Active Utopia (Controversies in Sociology)

Business & Money

Zygmunt Bauman

Economics

George Allen Unwin

Hermeneutics and Social Science

Columbia University Press

Freedom (Concepts in the Social Sciences)

Freedom is a concept central to many of the social sciences. This book explores the social production of 'free agents', and the intimate connection between this process and the issues of systemic integration and social control.

Freedom (Concepts in the social sciences)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Open University Press

<p>Life in Fragments is a continuation of the themes and motifs explored in Zygmunt Bauman's acclaimed study, Postmodern Ethics (Blackwell, 1993) Described by Richard Sennett as a major event in social theory, Postmodern Ethics subverted the pieties of subversion which rule the postmodern imagination, arguing for an ethic of being with the Other, beyond the fashionable imperative of anything goes or the deconstruction of identity through difference.</p>

Life in Fragments: Essays in Postmodern Morality

Philosophy

Blackwell*publishers

In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For Bauman, culture is a living, changing aspect of human interaction which must be understood and studied as a universal of human life. At the heart of his approach is the proposition that culture is inherently ambivalent. With a major new introduction to this new edition, this classic work emerges as a crucial link in the development of Bauman′s thought. By his own admission, it was the first of his books to grope towards a new kind of social theory, in contrast to the fals

Culture as praxis (Monographs in social theory)

Routledge & K.Paul

Memories of Class: The Pre-History and After-Life of Class (International Library of Sociology)

Routledge& Kegan Paul

This book examines the role of intellectuals in modern and post-modern contexts. It argues that as the concept of verity has become increasingly contingent, the role of the intellectual has become interpretive rather than legislative. Bauman assesses the implications of this change for today's culture.

Legislators and interpreters: On modernity, post-modernity, and intellectuals

Polity Press

Modernity and the Holocaust

Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holocaust. The book examines what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly concentrates upon the lessons which the Holocaust has for sociology. Bauman's work demonstrates that the Holocaust has to be understood as deeply involved with the nature of modernity. There is nothing comparable to this work available in the sociological literature.

History

Military

Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies

Sociology

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