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Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: A Conversation with Peter Haffner

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Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be the pre-eminent social thinker for which he became world renowned, a thinker who never shied away from addressing the great issues of our time and always strove to interrogate received wisdom and common sense, to make the familiar unfamiliar.

As in Bauman’s work more generally, the personal and the political are interwoven in this book. Bauman’s life, which followed the same trajectory as the social and political upheavals of the 20th century, left its trace on his thought. Bauman describes his upbringing in Poland, military service in the Red Army, working for the Polish Secret Service after the war and expulsion from Poland in 1968, providing personal accounts of the historical events on which he brings his social and political insights to bear. His reflections on history, identity, Jewishness, morality, happiness and love are rooted in his own personal journey through the turbulent events of the 20th century to which he bore witness.

These last conversations shed new light on one of the greatest social thinkers of our time, offering a more personal perspective on a man who changed our way of thinking about the modern world.

Συγγραφέας: Bauman Zygmunt
Εκδότης: POLITY PRESS
Σελίδες: 136
ISBN: 9781509542314
Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό Εξώφυλλο
Αριθμός Έκδοσης: 1
Έτος έκδοσης: 2020

Editorial Note

Preface

Love and Gender

Choosing a partner: Why we are losing the capacity to love

Experience and Remembrance

Fate: How we make the history that makes us

Jewishness and Ambivalence

Adaptation: Why were Jews attracted to communism?

Intellect and Commitment

Sociology: Why it should not separate objective from personal experience

Power and Identity

Modernity: On the compulsion to be no one, or become someone else

Society and Responsibility

Solidarity: Why everyone becomes everyone else’s enemy

Religion and Fundamentalism

The end of the world: Why it is important to believe in (a non-existent) God

Utopia and History

Time travel: Where is ‘the beyond’ today?

Present and Future

Human waste: Who are the witches of modern society?

Happiness and Morality

The good life: What does it mean to take off shoes that are too tight?

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Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds.

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