Intimations of Postmodernity

by Bauman,Zygmunt

• ISBN13: 9780415067508
• ISBN10: 0415067502
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1991-12-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Postmodernism captured the imagination of sociologists, philosophers, political scientists and writers on culture in the 1980s. Society was said to have moved into a new phase which left many of our old assumptions forlorn and impotent. Zygmunt Bauman was a leading contributor to the debate. InIntimations of Postmodernity, Bauman sets out his essential ideas on the sociological and philosophical antecedents of postmodernity. He shows us how to use the concept without falling into the snares of introspective nihilism or mindless euphoria. Where other writers have bogged themselves down in abstract discussion, Bauman shows us how to use the concept concretely. Lucid and intelligent, this book makes a major contribution to the growing literature on postmodernism. It will be of interest to sociologists, philosophers, political scientists, and students of culture, and will become a model for future studies of postmodernism.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Re-enchantment of the world, or how can one narrate postmodernity?

Legislators and interpreters: Culture as the ideology of intellectuals

Sociological Responses to Postmodernity

The Changing Discursive Formation of Sociology

Is there a Postmodern Sociology?

Philosophical Affinities of Postmodern Sociology

The World According to Jean Baudrillard

Communism: a Postmortem

Living Without Alternative?

A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity: Interview

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