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The Social Thought of Zygmunt Bauman

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  1. Keith Tester

    1. University of Portsmouth, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Keith Tester
    Pages 1-11

  3. Critical Thinking and Human Possibility

    • Keith Tester
    Pages 12-33

  4. The Emergence of an Imagination

    • Keith Tester
    Pages 34-57

  5. Socialism: Utopian and Cultural

    • Keith Tester
    Pages 58-81

  6. Communism and Modernity

    • Keith Tester
    Pages 82-106

  7. The Holocaust

    • Keith Tester
    Pages 107-130

  8. Postmodernity: Ethical Incentive, Indifferent World

    • Keith Tester
    Pages 131-156

  9. Sociology and the Challenge of Globalisation

    • Keith Tester
    Pages 157-182

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 183-202
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About this book

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most important contemporary social thinkers. He has changed the way we think about the Holocaust, postmodernity and globalisation. This is the first book to discuss all of Bauman's work, from the first essays in post-Stalinist Poland, through to his participation in 1960s Marxist revisionism, and up to the work for which he is well known in the West. Bauman's work is put into its social and historical context, and it is shown why Bauman matters.

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'Nobody understands Zygmunt Bauman better than Keith Tester. Tester constructs a dialogue with Bauman, on his own terrain. The result is a hermeneutic personal and sociological at the same time. Bauman emerges from these pages as the persistent advocate of the good society and of human dignity. This is critical sociology at its best.' - Peter Beilharz, Director, Thesis Eleven Centre for Critical Theory, La Trobe University, Australia

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Portsmouth, UK

    Keith Tester

About the author

KEITH TESTER is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull, UK. He is the author of a number of books and co-author of Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Social Thought of Zygmunt Bauman

  • Authors: Keith Tester

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230505681

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1271-8Published: 28 May 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51133-4Published: 01 January 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50568-1Published: 28 May 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 210

  • Topics: Social Theory, Political Science, Philosophy, general

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