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Intimacy in postmodern times: A friendship with Zygmunt Bauman

By Peter Beilharz

Book information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781526132154, 152613215X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9428656 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
288\242
Time added
2020-12-25 11:00:43

Description

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades. He did major work on the Holocaust, the postmodern and much else, up to fifty-eight books in English on almost as many topics. In this book, Australian sociologist Peter Beilharz, Bauman’s collaborator for thirty years, recounts the details of their relationship, simultaneously charting the changes that have occurred in academic life from the 1980s to today. Friendship was one of the bonds that made Bauman and Beilharz’s intellectual collaboration possible. Though the two were worlds apart in terms of biography and place, their work together was defined by a certain kind of intimacy. Separated by a generation, they collaborated for a generation together. This book follows their story in touching detail while puzzling over Bauman’s rich yet contested legacy.

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