Intimacy in Postmodern Times - A Friendship With Zygmunt Bauman

Informationen zum Autor Peter Beilharz is Professor of Culture and Society at Curtin University, Australia, Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University, Australia, and Visiting Professsor at the Bauman Institute, University of Leeds, UK. He is a co-founder and editor of the international journal of social theory, Thesis Eleven and he was director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University from 2002 to 2014. His 27 previous books include Zygmunt Bauman - Dialectic of Modernity (2002). Klappentext This book says farewell to Zygmunt Bauman by reflecting on the author's thirty-year collaboration with him. Using his own archives and published work, Peter Beilharz establishes the nature of their friendship and the development of their respective intellectual projects on modernity, the postmodern and the present crisis. Zusammenfassung This book says farewell to Zygmunt Bauman by reflecting on the author’s thirty-year collaboration with him. Using his own archives and published work, Peter Beilharz establishes the nature of their friendship and the development of their respective intellectual projects on modernity, the postmodern and the present crisis. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis BeginningPart I: Itineraries and archives 1 First decade 2 Second decade 3 Third decadePart II: Ways of going on 4 Entanglements 5 Heads up from giants Part III: Talking the days 6 Working together, at a distance 7 Last decade: Bauman writing, reading and talking 8 The 'Bauman phenomenon': signing outEnding AcknowledgementsBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Peter Beilharz, Beilharz Peter
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781526132154
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3215-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; History of Ideas, Cultural Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, Biography: general, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Biography: philosophy and social sciences