{"product_id":"the-bauman-reader-isbn-9780631214915","title":"The Bauman Reader","description":"The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman range across a large number of issues in sociology, politics, history, and cultural studies. This is the first collection of Bauman's writings that covers the entire breadth of his work, and includes a summarizing essay and commentary by editor Peter Beilharz. As a whole, this is not only a guide to Bauman's way of thinking, but a guide to making sense of our times through the major work of one of the most important figures in late-twentieth-century social thought  Preface. \u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: Peter Beilharz: Reading Zygmunt Bauman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Telos Interview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Socialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 The Historical Location of Socalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Modern Times, Modern Marxism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Communism: A Postmortem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Class and Power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Class: Before and After.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Gamekeepers Turned Gardeners.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 The Rise of the Interpreter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Hermeneutics and Critical Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 The Challenge of Hermeneutics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Critical Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Sociology and the Postmodern.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 The Re-Enchantment of the World, or, How Can One Narrate Postmodernity?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Figures of Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Making and Unmaking of Strangers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Parvenu and Pariah: The Heroes and Victims of Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Century of Camps.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Sociology After the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Dictatorship Over Needs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 A Century of Camps?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Ambivalence and Ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 The Quest for Order.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 The Social Construction of Ambivalence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Globalization and the New Poor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 On Glocalization: Or Globalization for Some, Localization for Some Others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 From the Work Ethic to the Aesthetic of Consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Journey Never Ends, Zygmunt Bauman Talks With Peter Beilharz.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"\u003ci\u003eThe Bauman Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Beilharz, provides an excellent condensation of the sociologist's remarkably diverse writing in social theory, politics, and philosophy. The \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e scoops up many of Bauman's most significant work on the nature of culture, intellectuals, morality, ethics, modernity, postmodernity, and globalisation.\" -- Anthony Elliott, \u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This anthology provides the possibility for students of social theory and postmodernity finally to 'get a handle' on the multifaceted, deeply veined work of Zygmunt Bauman. Beilharz makes a real contribution by providing organizational categories for Bauman's diverse writing. Further, his broadly reasoned introduction supplies a biographical, historical, and theoretical framework for making overall sense of what Bauman has been up to during his distinguished and highly original career.\" \u003ci\u003eJeffrey Alexander, University of California at Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most enterprising minds in the contemporary social sciences. Beilharz's selection provides a full picture of Bauman as an analyst of class, as a moral philosopher, and as a critic of globalization. The image that emerges is one of a European intellectual of the old style who is entirely up to the exigencies of our time.\" \u003ci\u003ePeter Wagner, European University Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Beilharz\u003c\/b\u003e holds a Chair in Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia. In 1980 he co-founded \u003ci\u003eThesis Eleven,\u003c\/i\u003e the international journal of social theory. His major books include \u003ci\u003eLabour's Utopias\u003c\/i\u003e (1992),\u003ci\u003e Postmodern Socialism\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003eTransforming Labor\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003e Imagining the Antipodes \u003c\/i\u003e(1997), and \u003ci\u003eZygmunt Bauman: Dialectic of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e (2000)  The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman range across a large number of issues in sociology, politics, history, and cultural studies. This is the first collection of Bauman's writings to cover the entire breadth of his work, and includes a summarizing essay and commentary by editor Peter Beilharz. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beginning with Bauman's early English-language work on socialism, the \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e proceeds through \u003ci\u003eLegislators and Interpreters\u003c\/i\u003e to Bauman's defense of a sociology of the postmodern. The editor has also selected essays from Bauman's preeminent works on the Holocaust and on globalization. The book includes a new extensive interview, anticipating some of Bauman's forthcoming work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990165700837,"sku":"NP9780631214915","price":122.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631214915.jpg?v=1761786755","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-bauman-reader-isbn-9780631214915","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}