Zygmunt Bauman - Dialectic of Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Peter Beilharz is Professor of Sociology at the School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia. Klappentext This measured and thoughtful book provides a comprehensive critical commentary on Bauman's social theory. It explores the roots of his ideas in questions of capital and labour, and explains how these ideas flourished in Bauman's later writings on culture, intellectuals, utopia, the holocaust, modernity and postmodernism. Bauman's work has been wide-ranging and ambitious. This book fulfils the objective of providing an authoritative critical guide to this essential thinker. Zusammenfassung Introduces over thirty years of Bauman's work! providing a guide to one of the characters of 20th century social thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Class and Labour Culture and Sociology Intellectuals and Utopians The Holocaust and the Perfect Order Touring the Fragments Following the Human Condition Epilogue Mediations

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Beilharz, Beilharz Peter
• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.01.2000
• EAN: 9780761967354
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-6735-4
• Pagine: 192
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Cultural Studies, Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Political science & theory, Political science and theory