ISBN:
0761967346
,
0761967354
,
9780761967347
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 180 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Zygmunt Bauman : Dialectic of Modernity
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Bauman, Zygmunt
;
Sociology
Abstract:
This measured and thoughtful book provides a comprehensive critical commentary on Bauman's social theory. It explores the roots of his ideas in questions of capital and labour, and explains how these ideas flourished in Bauman's later writings on culture, intellectuals, utopia, the holocaust, modernity and postmodernism. Bauman's work has been wide-ranging and ambitious. This book fulfils the objective of providing an authoritative critical guide to this essential thinker
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover ; Table of Contents ; 1 - Class and Labour ; 2 - Culture and Sociology ; 3 - Intellectuals and Utopians ; 4 - The Holocaust and the Perfect Order ; 5 - Touring the Fragments ; 6 - Following the Human Condition ; Epilogue ; References ; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p.[174]-176) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://sk.sagepub.com/books/zygmunt-bauman
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