Liquid Sociology : Metaphor in Zygmunt Bauman's Analysis of Modernity.
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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 Theory -- 8 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.
Zygmunt Bauman's 'liquid sociology' confronts the awesome task of reminding individual men and women that an alternative way of living together is within our eminent capabilities, if only we start to think differently about our world. The metaphor of 'liquidity', which has become such a prominent feature of his writings since 2000, provides us with just such a new interpretation, with a novel 'way of seeing'. 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 gained and lost by embracing an artistic sensibility within the social sciences. With contributions from internationally renowned scholars, this book will appeal to all those interested in Bauman's work, especially within sociology, social, political and cultural theory, and to anyone curious about the value of metaphor in interpreting the social world.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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