Culture, Modernity and Revolution

Essays in Honour of Zygmunt Bauman
1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-415-08266-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 227 mm x 149 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

In Culture, Modernity and Revolution a group of distinguished sociologists and social philosophers reflect upon the major concerns of Zygmunt Bauman. Their essays not only honour the man, but provide important contributions to the three interlinked themes that could be said to form the guiding threads of Bauman's life work: power, culture and modernity. Culture, Modernity and Revolution is both a remarkable sociological commentary on the problems facing East-Central Europe and an exposition of some of the key, hitherto neglected, features of the modern cultural universe.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kilminster, Richard

Varcoe, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION: INTELLECTUAL MIGRATION AND SOCIOLOGICAL INSIGHT Part I Culture 1 THE CULTURAL PROGRAMME OF MODERNITY AND DEMOCRACY: SOME TENSIONS AND PROBLEMS 2 THREE ASPECTS OF MODERNITY IN SIMMEL’S PHILOSOPHIE DES GELDES: ITS EPIPHANIC SIGNIFICANCE, THE CENTRALITY OF MONEY AND THE PREVALENCE OF ALIENATION 3 TECHNOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIC POLITICS 4 OMNIVOROUS MODERNITY Part II Revolution 5 THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1989 IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE IDEA OF REVOLUTION 6 PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF A SOCIALIST ECONOMY IN EUROPE 7 THE SOCIAL ROLE OF EASTERN EUROPEAN INTELLECTUALS RECONSIDERED 8 A NEW MIDDLE CLASS? 9 DEMOCRACY VERSUS A NEW AUTHORITARIANISM IN EASTERN EUROPE, ADDENDUM: CULTURE AND POWER IN THE WRITINGS OF ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Kilminster and Ian Varcoe are Lecturers in Sociology at the University of Leeds.