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      Metaphor in Zygmunt Bauman’s Analysis of Modernity

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      Liquid Sociology book

      Metaphor in Zygmunt Bauman’s Analysis of Modernity
      Edited ByMark Davis
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2013
      eBook Published 11 May 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592541
      Pages 252
      eBook ISBN 9781315592541
      Subjects Humanities, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Davis, M. (Ed.). (2013). Liquid Sociology: Metaphor in Zygmunt Bauman’s Analysis of Modernity (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592541

      ABSTRACT

      Zygmunt Bauman’s ’liquid sociology’ confronts the awesome task of reminding individual men and women that an alternative way of living together is within our eminent capabilities, if only we start to think differently about our world. The metaphor of ’liquidity’, which has become such a prominent feature of his writings since 2000, provides us with just such a new interpretation, with a novel ’way of seeing’. Each chapter in this unique collection takes seriously Bauman’s analysis of modernity as ’liquid’, throwing new light upon global social problems, as well as opening up a space for assessing the nature of Bauman’s contribution to sociology, and for understanding what may be gained and lost by embracing an artistic sensibility within the social sciences. With contributions from internationally renowned scholars, this book will appeal to all those interested in Bauman’s work, especially within sociology, social, political and cultural theory, and to anyone curious about the value of metaphor in interpreting the social world.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|12 pages

      Liquid Sociology – What For?

      ByMark Davis

      chapter 2|14 pages

      Blurring Genres: A Conversation with Zygmunt Bauman on Metaphors, Science versus Art, Fiction and Other Tricks of the Trade

      chapter 3|18 pages

      Bauman’s Challenge: Metaphors and Metamorphoses

      ByAntony Bryant

      chapter 4|22 pages

      Bauman’s Travels: Metaphors of the Token and the Wilderness

      ByKieran Flanagan

      chapter 5|17 pages

      ‘Welcome to the Hotel California’: Bauman and Virilio on Utopia, Dystopia, and Globalisation

      chapter 6|19 pages

      The Heineken Effect: Bauman, Baudrillard and Žižek as Metaphorical Thinkers of Liquidity

      chapter 7|18 pages

      On the Liquidity of Evil: Modernity and the Dissolution of Ethics in Bauman’s Social Theory

      chapter 8|18 pages

      Strangers, ‘Others’ and the Unstable Metaphors of Race Representation in Liquid Modernity: The Case of the Gypsy Weddings

      chapter 9|18 pages

      Risk, Nichtwissen and Fear: Searching For Solidity in

      ByLiquid Times?

      chapter 10|20 pages

      From ‘Solid’ Producers and Consumers to ‘Liquid’ Prosumers

      chapter 11|14 pages

      The Question of a Sociological Poetics: Metaphors, Models and Theory

      chapter 12|28 pages

      ‘Metaphormosis’: On the Metaphoricity of Zygmunt Bauman’s Social

      ByTheory

      chapter 13|12 pages

      Conclusion: Liquid Sociology

      ByPeter Beilharz
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