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Zygmunt Bauman - Why Good People do Bad Things (Paperback)
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Zygmunt Bauman - Why Good People do Bad Things (Paperback)
Series: Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge
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In this ground-breaking book, Shaun Best analyses the intellectual
knowledge production of Zygmunt Bauman and his rise to academic
stardom in the English speaking world by evaluating the relation
between his biography, the contexts in which he found himself, and
why his intellectual creativity is admired by so many people.
Bauman has an interesting 'contested' biography and underwent a
number of intellectual shifts from the early stages of his academic
career as Marxist. Bauman moved on and for almost ten years he was
associated with 'postmodernity' (from 1989-1997) but in 2000 he
decided to distance himself from postmodernism and rebrand his
approach to understanding the contemporary world as 'liquid
modernity'. Best shows how Bauman developed his canonised status
becoming an intellectual guru in the UK and in Australia despite
being largely ignored by the academic community in the United
States and Central Europe. Rather than investigating Bauman's
academic output as a demonstration of his 'creative genius', Best
argues that most academic output involves the interplay of multiple
factors and this book evaluates the influences on both intellectual
choices and the social factors or contexts that led Bauman to
attach himself to different sets of ideas during his academic
career.
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