Table of Contents

VOLUME ONE
PART ONE: PROFILES AND SURVEYS
Reading Zygmunt Bauman - Peter Beilharz
Looking for Clues
Modernity, Postmodernity and Ethics - Zygmunt Bauman, Timo Cantell and Poul Poder Pedersen
An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman
The Journey Never Ends - Zygmunt Bauman and Peter Beilharz
Zygmunt Bauman Talks with Peter Beilharz
Gespr[um]ach mit Janina Bauman and Zygmunt Bauman - Janina Bauman and Zygmunt Bauman
Context and Sociological Horizons - Zygmunt Bauman and Keith Tester
Three Appreciations of Zygmunt Bauman - Richard Kilminster and Ian Varcoe
Bauman′s Ways of Seeing the World - Stefan Morawski
Zygmunt Bauman - Dennis Smith
How to Be a Successful Outsider
Identity and the Limits of Comparison - Ian Varcoe
Bauman′s Reception in Germany
Modernity and Tough Jews
The Right to Inconsistency - Pieter Nijhoff
Sociology, Postmodernity and Exile - Zygmunt Bauman, Richard Kilminster and Ian Varcoe
An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman
Culture and Power in the Writings of Zygmunt Bauman - Ian Varcoe and Richard Kilminster
Laudatio f[um]ur Zygmunt Bauman - Claus Offe
Zygmunt Bauman - Barry Smart
Demons of Other People′s Fear - Janina Bauman
The Plight of the Gypsies
The Walls Tighten around Us - Janina Bauman
A Dream of Belonging - Janina Bauman
My Years in Postwar Poland
A Review of Janina Bauman′s Winter in the Morning - Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
Out of the Ghetto - Patrick Wright
A Sad Story - Carole Angier
Endings and Contradictions - Murray Baumgarten
Observations on Holocaust Literature
PART TWO: SOCIALISM AND INTELLECTUALS
Poland and Britain - Julian Hochfeld
Two Concepts of Socialism
The Origins and Significance of East European Revisionism - Karl Reyman and Herman Singer
Polish Revisionism - James H Satterwhite
Critical Thinking in Poland from 1953
A Pleading for Revolution - Leszek Kolakowski
A Rejoinder to Z Bauman
The Social Role of Eastern European Intellectuals Reconsidered - Lewis A Coser
Intellectuals and Modernity - David Roberts
A Postmodern Perspective
VOLUME TWO
PART THREE: THE HOLOCAUST
Bauman in Germany - Hans Joas
Modern Violence and the Problems of German Self-Understanding
Modernity and Totalitarianism - Luciano Pellicani
Modernity, Libertarianism and Critical Theory - Alex Delfini and Paul Piccone
Reply to Pellicani
Genocide, Civilization and Modernity - Michael Freeman
Genocide and Decivilizing Processes in Germany - Jonathan Fletcher
Civilization and Ambivalence - Ian Burkitt
Holocaust Topologies - David B Clarke, Marcus A Doel and Francis X McDonough
Singularity, Politics, Space
The Holocaust and the Modernization of Gender - Ann Taylor Allen
A Historiographical Essay
The Terrorism of Reason in the Thought of Zygmunt Bauman - David Torevell
Sociology, History and the Holocaust - Ivar Oxaal
Race, Ethnicity and the Rational Organization of Evil - John Rex
Modernity, the Holocaust and Politics - Rosemary H T O′Kane
Testimonies and Studies - Edith Kurzweil
The Holocaust, Modernity and Tough Jews - Jack Zipes
Genocide and the Social Production of Immorality - Ruth Jamieson
[um]Uber die Rationalit[um]at des B[um]osen - Zygmunt Bauman, Harald Welzer and Peter Beilharz
Interview mit Zygmunt Bauman
Modernity and the Holocaust - A D Moses
Overall Interpretations - Yehuda Bauer
Zygmunt Bauman, Jeffrey Herf, Goetz Aly
Historicizing the Holocaust - Dominick LaCapra
Genocide and the Social Production of Immortality - Andrew Charlesworth
Towards a Geography of the Shoah - R Kilminster and I Varcoe
The Critique of Instrumental Rationality - Robert Fine
PART FOUR: THE POSTMODERN
Zygmunt Bauman′s Postmodern Turn - Douglas Kellner
Postmodern Ethics - Scott Lash
The Missing Ground
Zygmunt Bauman - George Ritzer
From Modern to Postmodern
Zygmunt Bauman - Steven Seidman
Modernity, Postmodernity and the New Middle Ages - Dennis Smith
VOLUME THREE
PART FOUR: THE POSTMODERN (CONTINUED)
The Discontented Epoch - Tim May
Freedom and Security in Bauman′s Postmodernity
Inter Putatorem et Vastitatem - Michael Crozier
The Ambivalences of the Garden Metaphor in Modernity
The Consequences of Alterity - Gillian Robinson
Zygmunt Bauman′s Modernity and Ambivalence
Zygmunt Bauman - Shaun Best
Personal Reflections within the Mainstream of Modernity
Closed Spaces Restricted Places - Angus Bancroft
The Resurgence of Politics in the Work of Zygmunt Bauman
Review of Liquid Modernity - Robert Campain
PART FIVE: ETHICS
Why Does Proximity Make a Moral Difference? Coming to Terms with a Lesson Learned from the Holocaust - Arne Johan Vetlesen
Business Ethics and Bauman Ethics - Ren[ac]e Ten Bos
Postmodernity and the Ethics of Care - Ross Abbinnett
Situating Bauman′s Social Theory
An Ethics of the Ephemeral? The Possibilities and Impossibilities of Zygmunt Bauman′s Ethics: A Review of Some Recent Books by Zygmunt Bauman - Alan Latham
Making Moral Citizens - Keith Tester
On Himmelfarb′s De-Moralization Thesis
Durkheim, Morality and Modernity - Chris Shilling and Philip A Mellor
Collective Effervescence, Homo Duplex and the Sources of Moral Action
In Defence of a Dialectical Ethic beyond Postmodern Morality - Mark Mason
Zygmunt Bauman′s Poisoned Gift of Morality - Matthias Junge
PART SIX: DEATH AND RELIGION
Review of Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies - Robert Bocock
Death, Medicine and the Right to Die - Thomas F Tierney
An Engagement with Heidegger, Bauman and Baudrillard
Modernity, Mortality and Mystery - Anton A van Niekerk
Death. So What? Sociology, Sequestration and Emancipation - Hugh Willmott
Postmodernity, High Modernity and New Modernity - James A Beckford
Three Concepts in Search of Religion
PART SEVEN: SOCIOLOGY AND MARXISM
Society under Suspicion - Nigel Dodd
Bauman and Rorty
Creativity and the Rise of Social Postmodernism - Gerard Delanty
Foucault, Lyotard and Bauman
Against ′Modernity′ - Anthony Woodiwiss
A Dissident Rant
Is Bauman′s Bureau Weber′s Bureau? A Comment - Paul du Gay
The Stranger and Social Theory - Vince Marotta
McFascism? Reading Ritzer, Bauman and the Holocaust - Peter Beilharz
VOLUME FOUR
PART SEVEN: SOCIOLGY AND MARXISM (CONTINUED)
Counting Memories? Revisiting Bauman, Reading Wright - Peter Beilharz
Review of Memories of Class - Maurizio D′Entr[gr]eves
Dead Indians, Flawed Consumers and Snowballs in Hell - Trevor Hogan
On Zygmunt Bauman′s New Poor
After the Poor - Geoff Sharp
A Future with a Past
Consumers, Identity and Belonging - Alan Warde
Reflections on Some Theses of Zygmunt Bauman
Consumption, Identity-Formation and Uncertainty - Alan Warde
Bauman, Intellectuals and Modernity - Ian Heywood
PART EIGHT: EXTENSIONS
Transcending Modernity? Individualism, Ethics and Japanese Discourses of Difference in the Postwar World - John Clammer
Hybridity Globalization and the Stranger - B[um]ulent Diken
The Impertinence of Intellectuals - Joanildo A Burity
Democracy and Postmodernity in Latin America
On Communism, Post-Communism, Modernity and Postmodernity - Leslie Holmes
Introduction to Organizing Modernity - John Law
Privileged Nomads - Dick Pels
The Color of Jews - Jon Stratton
Jews, Race and the White Australia Policy
The Feminization of Stigma in the Relationship between Israelis and Shoah Survivors - Ronit Lentin
Cannibalism and Bulimia - Jock Young
Modernity and Behaviour Control - Nils Christie
The Utopics of Modernity - Kevin Hetherington
Authoritarian High Modernism - James C Scott

About the Author

Peter Beilharz is Professor of Sociology at the School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.