| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) |
| Contents |
The Exilic Position -- Writing the Multiplicity of Modernity -- Decolonizing Zygmunt Bauman? -- Postmodernity as Jewish Experience and Interpretation -- From Solid Communism to Liquid Post-Communism |
| Summary |
"Zygmunt Bauman was both an outsider of Western modernity and one of its foremost interpreters. He was an exemplary figure in twentieth-century intellectual work on exile who experienced both Nazi and Soviet forms of totalitarianism. The first work to draw extensively on Bauman's personal archive, Zygmunt Bauman and the West argues that the distinctive social thought that sprung from Bauman's lived experiences of exile amounts to a sustained, sophisticated, and hitherto unappreciated problematisation of Eurocentrism and the West. Through an overview of the intellectual's thought and his contribution to sociology, Jack Palmer explores Bauman's experience and interpretation of the West and seeks to understand his work in a broader context, outside of the Eurocentric environment from which it was born. Intervening in a resurgent sociology of intellectuals, Zygmunt Bauman and the West reevaluates the place of the West in social and political thought."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 05, 2023) |
| Subject |
Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017.
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| SUBJECT |
Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017 fast |
| Subject |
Sociology.
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Civilization, Western -- 20th century.
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sociology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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Civilization, Western
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Sociology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780228018209 |
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022801820X |
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9780228018193 |
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0228018196 |
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