Ali Rattansi

Bauman and contemporary sociology (eBook, ePUB)

A critical analysis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first single-authored critical engagement with the major works of Zygmunt Bauman. Where previous books on Bauman have been exegetical, here an unwavering light is shone on key themes in the sociologist's work, exposing serious weaknesses in Bauman's interpretations of the Holocaust, Western modernity, consumerism, globalisation and the nature of sociology. The book shows how Eurocentrism, the neglect of issues of gender and a lack of awareness of the racism faced by Europe's non-white ethnic minorities seriously limit Bauman's analyses of Western societies. At the same time, it points to Bauman's repeated insistence on the need for sociologists to take a moral stance in favour of the world's poor and downtrodden as being his most valuable legacy. The book will be of great interest to sociologists. Its readability will be valued by undergraduates and postgraduates and it will attract a readership well beyond the discipline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526105899
• Artikelnr.: 57471677

Autorenporträt

Ali Rattansi was Professor and is now Visiting Professor of Sociology at City, University of London. His many books include Marx and the Division of Labour, Postmodernism and Society and the Oxford University Press Very Short Introductions to Racism and Multiculturalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: The dark side of modernity The question of modernity
Modernity and the Enlightenment Bauman on the Enlightenment and modernity
The Holocaust's modernity The ambivalences of modernity: a preliminary
interrogation of Bauman's Eurocentric, white, male gaze Part II: Living
with postmodernity Modernism and postmodernism Legislators and Interpreters
: extending the critique of Bauman's first exposition of postmodernity and
postmodernism Sociology and postmodernity Aspects of Bauman's sociology of
postmodernity: a critical commentary Postmodern ethics: Bauman's Levinasian
turn Part III: Floating, slipping, sliding, drowning, boiling and freezing:
the perils of liquid life Why had Bauman become a postmodernist? The whys
and wherefores of the demise of postmodernism 'Liquid' modernity vs
'reflexive' modernity: Bauman's problem of agency, again 'Metaphoricity' in
Bauman's sociology On the liquid metaphor: what is this liquid in 'liquid
modernity'? 'Solid' modernity 'Liquid' writing and liquid modernity: some
ethical considerations Liquid modernity: the bare essentials Aspects of
liquid modernity: critical reflections Conclusion: a sociologist of hope or
a prophet of gloom? Index