Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction- Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociological Thought: Bridging the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Michael Hviid Jacobsen; Chapter One- Zygmunt Bauman: Weberian Marxist?, Peter Beilharz; Chapter Two- A Freudian without Psychology: The Influence of Sigmund Freud on Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociology, Matt Dawson; Chapter Three- Modernity and the Holocaust: Exploring Zygmunt Bauman’s Contribution to the Sociology of the Holocaust, Adele Valeria Messina; Chapter Four- Zygmunt Bauman and the Continental Divide in Social Theory, Stjepan G. Meštrović, Michael Ohsfeldt, and Jacob Hardy; Chapter Five- Zygmunt Bauman on the West: Re-Treading Some Forking Paths of Bauman’s Sociology , Jack Palmer; Chapter Six- Death as a Social Construct: Zygmunt Bauman and the Changing Meanings of Mortality, Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Nicklas Runge; Chapter Seven- Zygmunt Bauman and the “Nostalgic Turn”, Dariusz Brzeziński; Chapter Eight- Bauman on Borders: The Role of Our Door in the Construction of the Stranger, Shaun Best; Chapter Nine- Seeking Windows in a World of Mirrors: Zygmunt Bauman’s Difficult Art of Conversation, Mark Davis and Elena Álvarez-Álvarez; Chapter Ten- Ambivalence (Not Love) Is All Around: Zygmunt Bauman and the (Ineradicable) Ambivalence of Being, Michael Hviid Jacobsen; Index

A must-read book for everyone interested in sociology/social theory that illustrates the continuing interest in Zygmunt Bauman’s work, dealing with the important aspects of his work and shedding light on some new angles and perspectives on his life and work

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