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005			20240726105051.0
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020			_a9781526105882 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aHM479 _b.B386 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aRattansi, Ali, _e1
245	1	0	_aBauman and contemporary sociology : _ba critical analysis / _cAli Rattansi.
260			_bManchester University Press, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource (344 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_aThis book offers an incisive and original perspective on the works of Zygmunt Bauman, perhaps the greatest sociologist of the late twentieth century. It examines the limitations of his approach while recognising the importance of his legacy as a theorist who insisted on the need for moral engagement.
505	0	0	_aCover -- _tBauman and contemporary sociology -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgements -- _tIntroduction -- _tPart I: The dark side of modernity -- _tBauman on the Enlightenment and modernity -- _tThe Holocaust's modernity -- _tThe ambivalences of modernity: a preliminary interrogation of Bauman's Eurocentric, white, male gaze -- _tPart II: Living with postmodernity -- _tModernism and postmodernism -- _tLegislators and Interpreters: extending the critique of Bauman's first exposition of postmodernity and postmodernism -- _tSociology and postmodernity -- _tAspects of Bauman's sociology of postmodernity: a critical commentary -- _tPostmodern ethics: Bauman's Levinasian turn -- _tPart III: Floating, slipping, sliding, drowning, boiling and freezing: the perils of liquid life -- _tWhy did Bauman become a postmodernist? -- _tThe whys and wherefores of the demise of postmodernism -- _t'Liquid' modernity vs 'reflexive' modernity: Bauman's problem of agency, again -- _t'Metaphoricity' in Bauman's sociology -- _tOn the 'liquid' metaphor: what is this liquid in 'liquid modernity'? -- _t'Solid' modernity -- _t'Liquid' writing and liquid modernity: some ethical considerations -- _tLiquid modernity: the bare essentials -- _tAspects of liquid modernity: critical reflections -- _tConclusion: a sociologist of hope or a prophet of gloom? -- _tReferences -- _tIndex.
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650		0	_aSociology.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1632927&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell