Taking a fresh look the history of northern working-class life in the second half of the twentieth century, this book turns to the concept of generation and generational change. The author explores Zygmunt Bauman’s bold vision of modern historical change as the shift from solid modernity to liquid modernity.
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Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Working-Class Life in the Twentieth-Century Interregnum PART I: SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF METHOD 2. Walking With My Thesis: Thinking with Feeling, Cultural Fall, Paradise Lost, ‘Pure Event’ and Some Other Characteristics of a Hermeneutical Exercise 3. Location in the Intellectual Landscape: The Methodological, Theoretical and Metaphysical Orientation of the Present Study PART II: THE INBETWEENERS, THEN AND NOW 4. That Was Then: Unpacking a Sensible World 5. Certain Aspects of the Interregnum: Disrupting the Reigning Structures of Historical Time and Order 6. This is Now: A World Inhospitable to Inbetweeners and Some Strategies for Living Between Worlds Postscript Notes Bibliography Index
Circa l’autore
Tony Blackshaw is a Reader at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has published works on a broad range of themes which include the following books: Leisure Life: Myth, Masculinity and Modernity (2003), Zygmunt Bauman (2005), Key Concepts in Community Studies (2010) and Leisure (2010).
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