The Emerald Guide to Zygmunt Bauman.

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- 1-Bauman: Life, Career and Politics -- 2-Bauman in Context -- Situating Zygmunt Bauman -- Kolakowski and Humanistic Marxism -- 3-Arrival in Britain: The Successful Outsider? -- Culture as Praxis -- Socialism the Active Utopia -- Thinking Sociologically -- 4-Bauman as a Critic of Modernity -- Modernity and the Holocaust -- Modernity and Ambivalence -- Conclusion -- 5-The Postmodern Turn -- Legislators and Interpreters -- Postmodern Culture -- Tourists and Vagabonds: Postmodern Re-stratification -- Conclusion -- 6-The Liquid Turn -- Interregnum: Liquid Times -- Consumption -- Liquid Modern Inequality -- Retrotopia -- Bauman on Liquid Modern Intimacy and Sexual Adiaphoria -- Conclusion -- 7-Bauman on Inclusion and Exclusion -- Levinas's Philosophy -- The Moral Party of Two -- Martin Buber: I-Thou/I-It -- Knud Ejler Løgstrup The Ethical Demand -- Character and Fate -- Why Is Proximity Moral? -- Other on a Horizon -- Conclusion -- 8-Care for the Other -- Bauman on Refugees -- 9-Bauman's legacy -- Epochalism -- Metaphors and the Value of 'Liquid' Terminology -- 'And the winner is …' -- The Bauman Institute -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1-Zygmunt Bauman bibliography -- Appendix 2-Sources and Further Reading -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Index.

This book is the first introductory guide to the work of Zygmunt Bauman, designed specifically for students and those new to his work. It provides a firm foundation for the independent reading of Bauman and for exploring the many interpretations of his influential ideas.

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