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  • The Routledge International Handbook on Zygmunt Bauman

    Edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Dariusz Brzeziński, Mark Davis, Jack Palmer ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge International Handbook on Zygmunt Bauman is a major, state‑of‑the‑art collection dedicated to the work and ideas of one of the most renowned intellectuals of the 20th and the 21st centuries.Bringing together eminent scholars in social sciences and humanities from all over the world, it presents and engages with the most important characteristics of Bauman’s work and life, the key ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Theory and Society

    Selected Writings, Volume 3

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    Translated by Katarzyna Bartoszynska ...
    The breadth and depth of Zygmunt Bauman’s engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part because many of his early writings were in Polish and never translated into English, and in part because many important pieces appeared in edited volumes and journals that are not readily available. This volume brings together hitherto unknown or rare ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • History and Politics

    Selected Writings, Volume 2

    Translated by Katarzyna Bartoszynska ...
    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    A victim of the Nazis, then the communists. Twice a refugee, yet always remaining a committed socialist. In countless ways, Zygmunt Bauman lived the political upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He was an actor within them. Bauman’s own lived history informed his politics, which found expression in varying degrees in his sociology, as he wrote extensively on socialism, democracy ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust

    Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions

    Edited by Jack Palmer, Dariusz Brzeziński ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust is a decisive text of intellectual reflection after Auschwitz, in which Bauman rejected the idea that the Holocaust represented the polar opposite of modernity and saw it instead as its dark potentiality. Bringing together leading scholars from across disciplines, this volume offers the first set of focused and critical commentaries on this classic work ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Culture and Art

    Selected Writings, Volume 1

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    Translated by Katarzyna Bartoszynska ...
    The sociological imagination and the artistic imagination have been historically intertwined, at once reciprocal and conflicting, complementary and tensional. This connection is nowhere more apparent than in the work of Zygmunt Bauman. His conception and practice of sociology were always infused with a literary and artistic sensibility. He wrote extensively on the relationship between sociology ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Zygmunt Bauman and the West

    A Sociology of Intellectual Exile

    by Jack Palmer ...
    Zygmunt Bauman was both an outsider of Western modernity and one of its foremost interpreters. He was an exemplary figure in twentieth-century intellectual work on exile who experienced both Nazi and Soviet forms of totalitarianism.The first work to draw extensively on Bauman’s personal archive, Zygmunt Bauman and the West argues that the distinctive social thought that sprang from Bauman’s lived ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Entanglements of Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide

    Burundi and Rwanda in Historical-Sociological Perspective

    by Jack Palmer ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    This book offers a novel sociological examination of the historical trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda. It challenges both the Eurocentric assumptions which have underpinned many sociological theorisations of modernity, and the notion that the processes of modernisation move gradually, if precariously, towards more peaceable forms of cohabitation within and between societies. Addressing these ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 04 January 1897 (Unabridged)

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    by et al. Elizabeth Flint Wade ...
    Narrated by Jack Palmer, Bobby Mcclusky, Denise Mast, Felisa Mai ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 47 min

    The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. This is the fourth issue of volume 2 with the following five short stories: "The purloining of Ruth Allen", by Elizabeth Flint Wade: an old spinster ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Great Philosophers: Popper

    by Frederic Raphael ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Karl Popper 1902-1994The political history of the twentieth century has been full of savage 'certainties'. A similar idea of history warranted the callous savageries of both Marxism and Fascism. They shared a faith in what Karl Popper called 'Historicism': the belief that the future could be predicted and that man had to align himself with its bloody progress.Totalitarianism, Popper maintained, ... Read more

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  • Modernity and the Holocaust

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holocaust.The book examines what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly concentrates upon the lessons which the Holocaust has for sociology. Bauman's work demonstrates that the Holocaust has to be understood as deeply involved ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Europe and Capitalism

    Regaining the Future

    by Diego Fusaro ...
    The current European Union is too often presented as the Europe of peoples and freedom.This essay overturns this common way of understanding our political reality. In fact, upon closer and unbiased analysis, Europe appears to be the result of a “passive revolution” (Gramsci) through which the dominant class, after 1989, has managed to stabilise capitalist relations of power. This happened at the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Desolation and Enlightenment

    Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    During and especially after the Second World War, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate Western liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating evil as an analytical category, they sought to discover the sources of twentieth-century horror and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD