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Tables of Contents for Zygmunt Bauman
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
x
Part I Setting the Agenda
Living Without a Guidebook
3
17
Introduction
3
1
Critical perspectives
3
2
Sociology plus
5
1
What is modernity?
6
3
What is postmodernity?
9
5
Why Bauman is worth reading
14
2
The myth of the cage-dwellers
16
2
The rest of this book
18
2
No Easy Choices
20
13
Culture, choice and sociology
20
3
Bauman's vision
23
4
Bauman's career and intellectual influences: a brief overview
27
6
Who is Zygmunt Bauman?
33
15
Faith, hope and charity
33
1
The roots of wisdom
34
1
Bauman's agenda
35
3
A brief biography
38
3
Transitions
41
2
Puzzles
43
1
Anti-Semitism and Bauman
43
1
Neither insider nor outsider
44
1
Marx and the art of motorcycle maintenance
45
3
The Power of the Past
48
13
Discovering postmodernity
48
2
From priest to prophet
50
2
Out of Poland
52
4
A sociology for strangers
56
5
Part II The Road to Postmodernity
The Road to the West
61
16
Keeping on the road
61
1
An unexpected discovery
62
2
Intellectuals and innovation
64
2
Bauman, Galbraith and Mill
66
1
Modern times, modern Marxism
67
2
Between Class and Elite
69
2
Polish peasants and politics
71
4
Conclusion
75
2
The Road to Utopia
77
21
Mechanisms of social change
77
1
Culture as Praxis
77
3
Towards a Critical Sociology
80
5
Socialism: the active utopia
85
4
Hermeneutics and Social Science
89
5
Conclusion
94
4
The Road to the Berlin Wall
98
15
Switching routes
98
1
Solidarity
99
2
Memories of Class
101
4
Freedom
105
4
After communism
109
1
Conclusion
110
3
The Trilogy
113
23
Three narratives
113
1
Legislators and Interpreters
114
6
Cruetly, dehumanization and estrangement
120
2
Modernity and the Holocaust
122
8
Modernity and Ambivalence
130
4
Conclusion
134
2
Bauman's Vision of Modernity and Postmodernity
136
33
Elaborating the vision
136
1
Tending the garden
136
2
Discipline and sacrifice
138
4
The costs of modernity
142
1
Contradictions of modernity
143
4
The postmodern perspective
147
3
The postmodern habitat
150
2
The broader context
152
1
Three aspects of postmodernity
153
2
Postmodernization
155
1
Globalization
156
1
Seduction and repression
156
2
Cognitive, aesthetic and moral space
158
3
The stranger
161
2
I and the Other
163
2
The role of the sociologist
165
4
Part III Dialogue
Between Critical Theory and Poststructuralism
169
19
The ambivalence of criticism
169
1
The journey from modernity to postmodernity
170
1
Adorno and Habermas
171
7
Foucault and Lyotard
178
6
Enlightenment values
184
4
A Correspondence between Zygmunt Bauman and Dennis Smith
188
33
First letter
188
3
Second letter
191
7
Third letter
198
5
Fourth letter
203
10
Fifth letter
213
8
Notes
221
10
Bibliography
231
8
Index
239