The Life and Work of Zygmunt Bauman: Entanglements - Interpretations - Legacies
Preamble to Part I: Life and Work
Chapter 1. The Traps of Engagement, Critical Sociology, and Cultural Theory: The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman, 1953-1968
Chapter 2. Bauman in Israel: Life and Work, 1968-1971
Chapter 3. On the Margins: Bauman at the University of Leeds, 1971-1991
Chapter 4. Globalizing Bauman: 1991-2017, and After
Chapter 5. The Autonomous Society Needs Autonomous Individuals: The Goals of Bauman's Sociology of Freedom
Chapter 6. "On Writing, on Writing Sociology": Zygmunt Bauman's Poetic Imagination
Preamble to Part II: Key Themes
Chapter 7. Zygmunt Bauman's Theory of Culture: From the Revisionist Turn to the Nostalgic Turn
Chapter 8. Theorizing Modernity: Zygmunt Bauman's Critical Diagnosis of the Changing Times
Chapter 9. Morality in the Humanist Thought of Zygmunt Bauman: From the Moral Party of Two to Cosmopolitan Responsibility
Chapter 10. Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology of Freedom: Freedom as a Differential, Ambivalent and Moral Blessing
Chapter 11. Politics: In Search of Human Freedom and Dignity
Chapter 12. Globalization and Its Discontents: Tourists, Vagabonds and Nomads in the Work of Zygmunt Bauman
Chapter 13. Community: Chasing Elusive Togetherness
Chapter 14. Un-Consuming Life: Sociological Imagination for the Society of Consumers
Chapter 15. The Power of the Past and the Future: On Nostalgia and Utopia in the Work of Zygmunt Bauman
Chapter 16. Deconstructions of Death: From Modern Medicine to the Postmodern Majestic Moment
Preamble to Part III: Bauman in Dialogue
Chapter 17. Retrotopia and the Universality of Hope: On Bauman's Reception and Application in Japan and South Korea
Chapter 18. Bauman's Critical Sociology and Postcolonial Discourse: The Arab Context
Chapter 19. Zygmunt Bauman's Neo-Marxist Critical Theory: A Chinese Perspective
Chapter 20. Looking at Contemporary Mass Violence through Bauman's Window
Chapter 21 Zygmunt Bauman and the New Mobilities Paradigm
Chapter 22 Bauman on Nature
Preamble to Part IV: Bauman and Contemporary Challenges
Chapter 23. Anxiety: The Liquid Modern Emotion
Chapter 24. 'Strangers at our Door': Zygmunt Bauman's Evolving Perspectives on the Migration Crisis
Chapter 25. Zygmunt Bauman on Surveillance in the Algorithmic Condition
Chapter 26 The Class, Capital and the Place We Ultimately Occupy: Homeless Tourism in Buenos Aires City
Chapter 27 Between Love and Community: Friendship, Intimacy and the Security-Freedom Paradox
Chapter 28. Reclaiming Ethical Agency: Adiaphorization in a Time of Climate Crisis
Chapter 29. On Racism in Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity
