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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170974103321

Titolo

Culture, modernity, and revolution : essays in honour of Zygmunt Bauman / / edited by Richard Kilminster and Ian Varcoe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 1995

ISBN

1-134-89043-5

1-134-89044-3

1-280-32573-9

0-203-20339-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BaumanZygmunt <1925->

KilminsterRichard

Varcoe Ian

Disciplina

301.092

301/.01

303.4

Soggetti

Sociology - Philosophy

Culture

Revolutions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-276) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: INTELLECTUAL MIGRATION AND SOCIOLOGICAL INSIGHT; THE CULTURAL PROGRAMME OF MODERNITY AND DEMOCRACY: SOME TENSIONS AND PROBLEMS; THREE ASPECTS OF MODERNITY IN SIMMEL'S PHILOSOPHIE DES GELDES: ITS EPIPHANIC SIGNIFICANCE, THE CENTRALITY OF MONEY AND THE PREVALENCE OF ALIENATION; TECHNOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIC POLITICS; OMNIVOROUS MODERNITY; THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1989 IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE IDEA OF REVOLUTION; PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF A SOCIALIST ECONOMY IN EUROPE

THE SOCIAL ROLE OF EASTERN EUROPEAN  INTELLECTUALS RECONSIDEREDA NEW MIDDLE CLASS?; DEMOCRACY VERSUS A NEW AUTHORITARIANISM IN EASTERN EUROPE; ADDENDUM: CULTURE AND POWER IN THE WRITINGS OF ZYGMUNT BAUMAN; Bibliography of the



works of Zygmunt Bauman; References; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

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.