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The Bauman Reader

Peter Beilharz (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-21491-5
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378 pages
November 2000, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface.

1. Introduction: Peter Beilharz: Reading Zygmunt Bauman.

2. The Telos Interview.

3. Socialism.

3.1 The Historical Location of Socalism.

3.2 Modern Times, Modern Marxism.

3.3 Communism: A Postmortem.

4. Class and Power.

4.1 Class: Before and After.

4.2 Gamekeepers Turned Gardeners.

4.3 The Rise of the Interpreter.

5. Hermeneutics and Critical Theory.

5.1 The Challenge of Hermeneutics.

5.2 Critical Theory.

5.3 Modernity.

6. Sociology and the Postmodern.

6.1 A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity.

6.2 The Re-Enchantment of the World, or, How Can One Narrate Postmodernity?.

7. Figures of Modernity.

7.1 Making and Unmaking of Strangers.

7.2 Parvenu and Pariah: The Heroes and Victims of Modernity.

8. The Century of Camps.

8.1 Sociology After the Holocaust.

8.2 Dictatorship Over Needs.

8.3 A Century of Camps?.

9. Ambivalence and Ethics.

9.1 The Quest for Order.

9.2 The Social Construction of Ambivalence.

10. Globalization and the New Poor.

10.1 On Glocalization: Or Globalization for Some, Localization for Some Others.

10.2 From the Work Ethic to the Aesthetic of Consumption.

11. The Journey Never Ends, Zygmunt Bauman Talks With Peter Beilharz.

Index.

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