The Social Thought Of Zygmunt Bauman

Tester (cultural sociology, U. of Portsmouth) explores the thinking of sociologist Bauman, whose Polish family escaped the Nazis by moving to the Soviet Union, where in later years he was expelled first from the army and then academia during anti-Semitic purges, and ended up teaching in England until his retirement in 1990. Among the topics are critical thinking and human possibility, utopian and cultural socialism, communism and modernity, the Holocaust, and sociology and the challenge of globalization. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR