Carlo Bordoni

Bauman's Legacy (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Analysis on the Crisis of Modernity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What remains of the idea of liquid modernity? Is Bauman's thought still relevant? This volume aims to answer these questions, without forgetting the vastness and complexity of his work, where the idea of liquidity remains fundamental, before and after the central turning point of the year 2000, when he published Liquid Modernity.
Bauman's legacy is multiform and complex, subdivided into partial legacies, not all of which are homogeneous and acceptable without benefit of inventory. The first difficulty consists in its complete lack of systematicity: Bauman-thought is by no means a single whole, nor can it be used as a key instrument to be applied to every condition, given that it explicitly concerns a precise fraction of our present. This is not to be understood as an oversight, but a conscious, strongly intended choice to eschew any systematic, systematising formulation of society. He prefers to understand the sociologist's task as an acute observer, capable of enabling social agents - that is, all human beings - to make the right choices with awareness of its risks, as well as its effects.
Bauman's legacy leaves a bitter taste in the mouth, because in its very concluding phase it reveals pessimistic implications that seem to contradict his previous positions, so full of hope and confidence in the opportunities for improvement of the humans. The very theorisation of liquidity itself seemed to suggest, in the peaceful understanding of a phase of disorientation, the possibility of rediscovering momentarily forgotten human values, first and foremost social solidarity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839994982
• Artikelnr.: 74060653

Autorenporträt

Carlo Bordoni is a sociologist and professor at the University Mercatorum (Rome).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1   Sociology from Weber to Bauman
2   A Life in Fragments
3   Highlights of Bauman's thought
4   From Solid to Liquid and Back
5   A Praise for Utopia
6   When Bauman was Postmodern
7   A Man in a Walk
8   Devouring Democracy
9   The Multiple Declines of the West
10   Lunch at Baumans'
A Biographical Note
Bibliography of Zygmunt Bauman
General Bibliography
Index