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.
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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.
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