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Liquid sociology : metaphor in Zygmunt Bauman's analysis of modernity /
Each chapter in this unique collection takes seriously Bauman's analysis of modernity as 'liquid', throwing new light upon global social problems, as well as opening up a space for assessing the nature of Bauman's contribution to sociology, and for understanding what may be gaine...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham, Surrey :
Ashgate,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Classical and contemporary social theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Liquid Sociology
- What For?; 2 Blurring Genres: A Conversation with Zygmunt Bauman on Metaphors, Science versus Art, Fiction and Other Tricks of the Trade; 3 Bauman's Challenge: Metaphors and Metamorphoses; 4 Bauman's Travels: Metaphors of the Token and the Wilderness; 5 'Welcome to the Hotel California': Bauman and Virilio on Utopia, Dystopia, and Globalisation; 6 The Heineken Effect: Bauman, Baudrillard and Žižek as Metaphorical Thinkers of Liquidity.
- 7 On the Liquidity of Evil: Modernity and the Dissolution of Ethics in Bauman's Social Theory8 Strangers, 'Others' and the Unstable Metaphors of Race Representation in Liquid Modernity; 9 Risk, Nichtwissen and Fear: Searching For Solidity in Liquid Times?; 10 From 'Solid' Producers and Consumers to 'Liquid' Prosumers; 11 The Question of a Sociological Poetics: Metaphors, Models and Theory; 12 'Metaphormosis': On the Metaphoricity of Zygmunt Bauman's Social Theory; 13 Conclusion: Liquid Sociology; Index.