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Palgrave The Social Thought Of Zygmunt Bauman 2004 Edition by K. Tester
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most important contemporary social thinkers. He has changed the way we think about the Holocaust postmodernity and globalisation. This is the first book to discuss all of Bauman's work from the first essays in post-Stalinist Poland through to his participation in 1960s Marxist revisionism and up to the work for which he is well known in the West. Bauman's work is put into its social and historical context and it is shown why Bauman matters. Table of contents : Acknowledgements Introduction Critical Thinking and Human Possibility The Emergence of an Imagination Socialism: Utopian and Cultural Communism and Modernity The Holocaust Postmodernity: Ethical Incentive Indifferent World Sociology and the Challenge of Globalisation References