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This measured and thoughtful book provides a comprehensive critical commentary on Bauman's social theory. It explores the roots of his ideas in questions of capital and labour, and explains how these ideas flourished in Bauman's later writings on culture, intellectuals, utopia, the holocaust, modernity and postmodernism. Bauman's work has been wide-ranging and ambitious. This book fulfils the objective of providing an authoritative critical guide to this essential thinker.
Touring the Fragments
Touring the Fragments
Postmodernity, in Bauman's work, is first of all postmarxism, though in the long run it is also more than that. The postmodern first up here is the critique of the illusions of marxism. Bauman's line of argument is autobiographical as well as theoretical. The certainties of modernity, the obsession with order, these were our socialist certainties, the mote or plank in our own radical vision. The semantics of critique in Bauman's work are distinct: modernity stands for modernism and marxism stands in for, or at least sometimes expresses modernity. But now, after marxism as a state form, after the Soviet experience, we feel weary, we feel somehow after. After fascism, after communism, in the midst of a consumer capitalism that ...
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