This thoughtful and illuminating book provides a major statement on the meaning and importance of postmodernity.
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Few other sociologists have addressed the question of the postmodern with the breadth of imagination and vision that Bauman can muster. This book steers a careful course between the twin excesses of instant dismissal postmodernism as something to be against and thoughtless adoption postmodernism as something to be celebrated. It is a fine book which exemplifies Bauman at his brilliant best.
–Barry Smart, Auckland University
–Barry Smart, Auckland University
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Zygmunt Bauman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. He is the author of many books, including Modernity and the Holocaust, 1989 winner of the European Amalfi prize.
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Antonio Gramsci (1957) reserved the marker, 'organic', for those intellectuals who articulated the world view, interests, intentions and historically determined potential of a particular class; who elaborated the values which needed to be promoted for such a potential to be fully developed; and who legitimized the historical role of a given class, its claim to power and to the management of social process in terms of those values. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postmodern habitat, legislative reason, interpretive reason, systemic revolutions, postmodern sociology, systemic reproduction, universalistic ambitions, aesthetic community, orthodox consensus, sociological discourse, consumer freedom, sociological practice, intellectual mode, patronage state Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Polity Press, Anthony Giddens, Claus Offe, Richard Rorty, Zygmunt Bauman, Mark Poster, Max Weber, Talcott Parsons, The Voice of America Forum Lecture, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, East European, Emile Durkheim, George Steiner, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Michel Maffesoli, Pierre Bourdieu, University of California Press New!
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Antonio Gramsci (1957) reserved the marker, 'organic', for those intellectuals who articulated the world view, interests, intentions and historically determined potential of a particular class; who elaborated the values which needed to be promoted for such a potential to be fully developed; and who legitimized the historical role of a given class, its claim to power and to the management of social process in terms of those values. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postmodern habitat, legislative reason, interpretive reason, systemic revolutions, postmodern sociology, systemic reproduction, universalistic ambitions, aesthetic community, orthodox consensus, sociological discourse, consumer freedom, sociological practice, intellectual mode, patronage state Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Polity Press, Anthony Giddens, Claus Offe, Richard Rorty, Zygmunt Bauman, Mark Poster, Max Weber, Talcott Parsons, The Voice of America Forum Lecture, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, East European, Emile Durkheim, George Steiner, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Michel Maffesoli, Pierre Bourdieu, University of California Press New!
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- Legitimation Crisis by Juergen Habermas on page 46, page 66, and page 113
- The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza by Richard H. Popkin on page 25, and page 148
- Philosophical Profiles: Essays in a Pragmatic Mode by Richard J. Bernstein on page 25, and page 147
- Peregrinations Law Form by Jean-Francois Lyotard on page 91, and page 148
- Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty on page 91, and page 144
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