LEADER 03280nam 2200541 450 001 9910156230203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5095-0270-X 010 $a1-5095-0272-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000709319 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001672327 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16469897 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001672327 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14821665 035 $a(PQKB)10661086 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4529693 035 $a(JP-MeL)3000112935 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4529693 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11212853 035 $a(OCoLC)950910054 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000709319 100 $a20160602h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn praise of literature /$fZygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo 210 1$aCambridge, England ;$aMalden, Massachusetts :$cPolity,$d2016. 210 4$d2016 215 $a1 online resource (95 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-5095-0268-8 330 $a"In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the humanities claiming scientific status). While many commentators see literature and sociology as radically different vocations, Bauman and Mazzeo argue that they are bound together by a common purpose and a shared subject matter. Despite the many differences in terms of their methods and their ways of presenting their findings, novels and sociological texts are not at cross-purposes. Indeed, it is precisely their differences that make them at once indispensable to each other and mutually complementary. The writers of novels and of sociological texts may explore their world from different perspectives, seeking and producing different types of 'data', but their products bear the unmistakable marks of their shared origin. They feed each other and depend on each other in terms of their agenda, their discoveries and the contents of their messages. In a world characterized by the continuous search for new sensations and the fetishism of consumption, they bring fundamental existential questions back to the public agenda. Literature and sociology reveal the truth of the human condition only when they stay in one another's company, remaining attentive to each other's findings and engaged in a continuous dialogue. For only together can they rise to the challenging task of untangling and laying bare the complex intertwining of biography and history as well as of individual and society that totality we are constantly shaping while being shaped by it"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aLiterature and society 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 615 0$aLiterature and society. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 676 $a809/.933552 686 $aLIT006000$2bisacsh 700 $aBauman$b Zygmunt$f1925-$0124491 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910156230203321 996 $aIn praise of literature$93431591 997 $aUNINA