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Bauman's ideas - his research topic, his hundreds of concepts and his imaginative approach to doing research - remain a source of inspiration for many scholars and researchers working within a variety of different fields and sub-fields, appealing equally to empirical work and theoretical elaboration. This book contains ten chapters devoted to different aspects of Bauman's work and ideas, and all chapters are devoted to the presentation and discussion of themes and ideas that were characteristic of Bauman's way of doing and writing sociology.
List of contents
Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction- Zygmunt Bauman's Sociological Thought: Bridging the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Michael Hviid Jacobsen; Chapter One- Zygmunt Bauman: Weberian Marxist?, Peter Beilharz; Chapter Two- A Freudian without Psychology: The Influence of Sigmund Freud on Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology, Matt Dawson; Chapter Three- Modernity and the Holocaust: Exploring Zygmunt Bauman's Contribution to the Sociology of the Holocaust, Adele Valeria Messina; Chapter Four- Zygmunt Bauman and the Continental Divide in Social Theory, Stjepan G. Meštrovi¿, Michael Ohsfeldt, and Jacob Hardy; Chapter Five- Zygmunt Bauman on the West: Re-Treading Some Forking Paths of Bauman's Sociology , Jack Palmer; Chapter Six- Death as a Social Construct: Zygmunt Bauman and the Changing Meanings of Mortality, Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Nicklas Runge; Chapter Seven- Zygmunt Bauman and the "Nostalgic Turn", Dariusz Brzezi¿ski; Chapter Eight- Bauman on Borders: The Role of Our Door in the Construction of the Stranger, Shaun Best; Chapter Nine- Seeking Windows in a World of Mirrors: Zygmunt Bauman's Difficult Art of Conversation, Mark Davis and Elena Álvarez-Álvarez; Chapter Ten- Ambivalence (Not Love) Is All Around: Zygmunt Bauman and the (Ineradicable) Ambivalence of Being, Michael Hviid Jacobsen; Index
About the author
Michael Hviid Jacobsen is a professor of sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark.
