By Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Poul Poder, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Poul Poder
Zygmunt Bauman is among the so much inspirational and arguable thinkers at the scene of latest sociology. For numerous many years he has supplied compelling analyses and diagnoses of an unlimited number of points of contemporary and liquid smooth residing. His paintings is more and more popularized, appraised and followed. This ebook considers the theoretical importance of his contribution to sociology, but in addition discusses and adopts a severe stance in the direction of his work.''The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman'' introduces and severely appraises essentially the most major in addition to a few of the lesser identified and ignored of Bauman's contributions to modern sociology: ethics, freedom, utopia, genocide, metaphors, ambivalence, politics, strangers, globalization, energy and consumerism. during this assortment, a world group of students delineates and discusses how Bauman's remedy of those topics demanding situations traditional knowledge in sociology, thereby revising and revitalizing sociological idea. As a distinct function, the booklet concludes with Bauman's exciting reflections and contemplations on his personal existence and highbrow trajectory released the following for the 1st time in English. during this postscript aptly entitled 'Pro Domo Sua' ('About Myself'), he describes the pushes and pulls that in the course of the years have formed his pondering.
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