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9780230221345

Bauman's Challenge Sociological Issues for the 21st Century

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230221345

  • ISBN10:

    0230221343

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-06-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This unique and original collection by internationally renowned scholars uses critical engagements with Baumans sociology to identify and better understand the challenges that face globalized human societies at the start of the twenty-first century.

Author Biography

MARK DAVIS is Lecturer in Sociology and Director of the Bauman Institute at the University of Leeds, UK. His publications include Freedom and Consumerism: A Critique of Zygmunt Baumans Sociology.

KEITH TESTER is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull, UK. His publications include The Social Thought of Zygmunt Bauman.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. vi
Notes on Contributorsp. vii
Editors' Introductionp. xi
Bauman's Europe; Europe's Baumanp. 1
The Use-Value of Human Waste and the Currency of Waste-Disposal Sites in Liquid Modernityp. 14
Bauman and the Drama of Abu Ghraibp. 37
Another Bauman: The Anthropological Imaginationp. 62
Bauman's Challenge to Sociologyp. 70
Bauman's Implicit Theologyp. 92
Event Horizon: Utopia-Dystopia in Bauman's Thoughtp. 127
Totalitarian Bureaucracy and Bauman's Sociological Imagination: In Defence of the Ivory Towerp. 148
Resistance Towards Ethicsp. 172
What's in the Post?p. 189
Conclusion: The Triple Challengep. 200
Indexp. 206
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