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.
Table des matières
Beginning
Part I: Itineraries and archives
1 First decade
2 Second decade
3 Third decade
Part II: Ways of going on
4 Entanglements
5 Heads up from giants
Part III: Talking the days
6 Working together, at a distance
7 Last decade: Bauman writing, reading and talking
8 The ‘Bauman phenomenon’: signing out
Ending
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Peter Beilharz is Professor of Culture and Society at Curtin University, Australia, Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University, Australia, and Visiting Professsor at the Bauman Institute, University of Leeds, UK. He is a co-founder and editor of the international journal of social theory, Thesis Eleven and he was director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University from 2002 to 2014. His 27 previous books include Zygmunt Bauman – Dialectic of Modernity (2002).
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