Contemporary Bauman

<p>This text covers Bauman’s contribution to sociology and social theory. This ideal teaching text analyzes Bauman's shift from a sociology of postmodernity to liquid modernity, and provides a critical assessment of the contemporary Bauman, appraising his novel theory of liquid modernity in terms of its implications for self-identity, interpersonal relationships, culture, communications, and the broad-ranging institutional transformations associated with globalization.</p><p>In addition to various extracts from Bauman's work, the book also contains a spirited reply from Zygmunt Bauman to both his sympathetic and unsympathetic critics. Bauman concludes by providing a new perspectives on his theory of liquid modernity, its differentiation from the modernity/postmodernity debate and its relation to current developments in contemporary social theory.</p> <p>Editor’s Introduction <em>Anthony Elliott</em>. Critique: Privatised and Disarmed <em>Zygmunt Bauman</em> <strong>Part 1: Liquid Modernity. </strong>On Being Light and Liquid <em>Zygmunt Bauman.</em> From Heavy to Light Modernity <em>Zygmunt Bauman</em> 1. The Theory of Liquid Modernity: A Critique of Bauman's Recent Sociology <em>Anthony Elliott </em>2. From Postmodernity to Liquid Modernity: What’s in a Metaphor? <em>Larry Ray </em>3. Bauman’s Irony <em>Keith Tester </em><strong>Part 2: Liquid Love. </strong>Falling in and out of Love <em>Zygmunt Bauman.</em> On Living in a Liquid Modern World <em>Zygmunt Bauman</em> 4. Gender and Sexualities in Liquid Modernity <em>Ann Branaman </em>5. Relatively Liquid Interpersonal Relationships in Flexible Work Life <em>Poul Poder </em>6. Liquid Love: Psychoanalysing Mania <em>Janet Sayers </em><strong>Part 3: Liquid Life. </strong>To Each Waste its Dumping Site <em>Zygmunt Bauman.</em> The Reality Principle and the Pleasure Principle Strike a Deal <em>Zygmunt Bauman </em>7. Liquid Waste, Being Human, and Bodily Death <em>Charles Lemert and Makenna Goodman </em>8. Solid Modernity, Liquid Utopia: Liquid Modernity, Solid Utopia: Ubiquitous Utopianism as a Trademark of the Work of Zygmunt Bauman <em>Michael Hviid Jacobsen </em>9. On Bauman’s Sociology of Suffering: Questions for Thinking <em>Iain Wilkinson.</em> Afterword on Writing: On Writing Sociology <em>Zygmunt Bauman</em></p>