Jacobsen - Beyond Bauman: Critical Engagements and Creative Excursions

Beyond Bauman

Bringing together leading interpreters of Zygmunt Baumans sociology, this volume thinks with and beyond Baumans work in order to show its continued relevance as a theory in its own right, as an object of criticism and as a stepping stone towards a fuller understanding of contemporary society.

The volume deals with some proposed omissions and absences in Baumans sociology, with chapters comparing Baumans ideas to those of other prominent social thinkers as well as chapters devoted to teasing out some problems and pitfalls in his work. Paying attention to central concepts and themes of Baumans thought, authors engage with various aspects of his work, considering potential deficiencies in his ethical perspective, his neglect of the religious dimensions of modernity, his lack of consideration for ethnicity and gender, his overlooking the importance of socialisation in liquid modernity and his problematic argument for individual choice and freedom in a world that is increasingly closed down by consumer capitalism.

Beyond Bauman aspires to show that despite Baumans status as a key sociological thinker, there are also certain deficiencies in his work that demand critical discussion. It will be of use to scholars of sociology, contemporary society, social theory and modernity.

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published extensively on the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman.

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

Series Editor: Stjepan G. Mestrovic,

Texas A&M University, USA

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory publishes rigorous scholarly work that re-discovers the relevance of social theory for contemporary times, demonstrating the enduring importance of theory for modern social issues. The series covers social theory in a broad sense, inviting contributions on both classical and modern theory, thus encompassing sociology, without being confined to a single discipline. As such, work from across the social sciences is welcome, provided that volumes address the social context of particular issues, subjects, or figures and offer new understandings of social reality and the contribution of a theorist or school to our understanding of it.

The series considers significant new appraisals of established thinkers or schools, comparative works or contributions that discuss a particular social issue or phenomenon in relation to the work of specific theorists or theoretical approaches. Contributions are welcome that assess broad strands of thought within certain schools or across the work of a number of thinkers, but always with an eye toward contributing to contemporary understandings of social issues and contexts.

Diagnostic Cultures

A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization of Modern Life

Svend Brinkmann

C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination

Prospects for Creative Inquiry

Edited by Jon Frauley

Fiction and Social Reality

Literature and Narrative as Sociological Resources

Mariano Longo

David Riesmans Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy

Edited by Keith Kerr, B. Garrick Harden and Marcus Aldredge

Max Webers Theory of Modernity

The Endless Pursuit of Meaning

Michael Symonds

Sociological Amnesia

Cross-currents in Disciplinary History

Edited by Alex Law and Eric Royal Lybeck

A Sociology of the Total Organization

Atomistic Unity in the French Foreign Legion

Mikaela Sundberg

Being Human in a Consumer Society

Alejandro Nstor Garca Martnez

Arendt Contra Sociology

Theory, Society and its Science

Philip Walsh

Hegels Phenomenology and Foucaults Genealogy

Evangelia Sembou

The Poetics of Crime

Understanding and Researching Crime and Deviance Through Creative Sources

Edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Marx and Weber on Oriental Societies

In the Shadow of Western Modernity

Lutfi Sunar

Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences

Creativity, Poetics and Rhetoric in Social Research

Edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Michael S. Drake, Kieran Keohane and Anders Petersen

The Gift and its Paradoxes

Beyond Mauss

Olli Pyyhtinen

The Puritan Culture of Americas Military

U.S. Army War Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan

Ronald Lorenzo

Violence, Society and Radical Theory

Bataille, Baudrillard and Contemporary Society

William Pawlett

A Genealogy of Social Violence

Founding Murder, Rawlsian Fairness, and the Future of the Family

Clint Jones

Liquid Sociology

Metaphor in Zygmunt Baumans Analysis of Modernity

Mark Davis

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Agenda-Building Struggles

Vian Bakir

The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization

Edited by Kieran Keohane and Anders Petersen

Utopia

Social Theory and the Future

Edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester

Fall Girls

Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib

Ryan Ashley Caldwell

Beyond Bauman

Critical Engagements and Creative Excursions

Edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Beyond Bauman

Critical engagements and creative excursions

Edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen

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Names: Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, 1971- editor.

Title: Beyond Bauman : critical engagements and creative excursions /

Michael Hviid Jacobsen (editor).

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. |