Zygmunt Bauman - To Build Anew
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4481629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Beilharz (0000-0001-8707-5758, La Trobe University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-113 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513606066242 |
| OpenAlex | W2070882572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
This essay is a gift for Zygmunt Bauman on his 80th birthday. Its purpose is to celebrate his achievement by scanning it, in three sections. First, I indicate something of my own encounter with Bauman, my road to Leeds. Second, I seek, once again, to characterize his project and its key themes. Third, I indicate some of the features of what I take to be his legacy. Bauman's sociology appeals because it combines East European Critical Theory with (if you like) a postmodern, or contemporary sociology of everyday life. His work mediates the themes of classical and modern sociology with present-day life and its uncertainties. Bauman's is a critique of modernity as excess, but it always retains the sense that we could, after all, do other
Aesthetics · Critical theory · Epistemology · Everyday life · Modernity · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2020 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |