Beilharz Intimacy in postmodern times

A friendship with Zygmunt Bauman
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3216-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

This book says farewell to Zygmunt Bauman by reflecting on the author’s thirty-year collaboration with him. Using his own archives and published work, Peter Beilharz establishes the nature of their friendship and the development of their respective intellectual projects on modernity, the postmodern and the present crisis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beilharz, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beginning
Part I: Itineraries and archives
1 First decade
2 Second decade
3 Third decade
Part II: Ways of going on
4 Entanglements
5 Heads up from giants
Part III: Talking the days
6 Working together, at a distance
7 Last decade: Bauman writing, reading and talking
8 The 'Bauman phenomenon': signing out
Ending
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Beilharz Peter:
Peter Beilharz is Professor of Culture and Society at Curtin University, Australia, Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University, Australia, and Visiting Professsor at the Bauman Institute, University of Leeds, UK. He is a co-founder and editor of the international journal of social theory, Thesis Eleven and he was director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University from 2002 to 2014. His 27 previous books include Zygmunt Bauman - Dialectic of Modernity (2002).Peter Beilharz is Professor of Culture and Society at Curtin University and Professor of Critical Theory at Sichuan University. He is the author of more than a dozen books and a founding editor of the journal Thesis Eleven.