Zygmunt Bauman's postmodern turn

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Zygmunt Bauman published books that described a postmodern turn in society, ethics, theory, culture, and politics. He argued that society and culture require new modes of thought, morality, and politics to respond to new social conditions. Bauman posed fundamental challenges to contemporary social theory and provided an original postmodern version of the sociological imagination.

Postmodernism

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Bauman in Germany: modern violence and the problems of German self-understanding

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Zygmunt Bauman's work for sociological theory and intellectual debate in Germany is signifiant. It emphasizes the tension between the Holocaust and the German 'Sonderweg' thesis. Bauman's neglect of democratic alternatives within American intellectual and political traditions must be considered. He emphasized pre-societal sources of morality in his ethics.

Analysis, Germany, Self-perception, Violence, Sociological research, Self perception

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