Name: Intimacy in Postmodern Times: A Friendship With Zygmunt Bauman
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Author: Peter Beilharz
ISBN: 9781526132154

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Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Manchester Univ Pr

Author

Peter Beilharz

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781526132154

Synopsis "Intimacy in Postmodern Times: A Friendship With Zygmunt Bauman"

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades. He did major work on the Holocaust, the postmodern and much else, up to fifty-eight books in English on almost as many topics. In this book, Australian sociologist Peter Beilharz, Bauman’s collaborator for thirty years, recounts the details of their relationship, simultaneously charting the changes that have occurred in academic life from the 1980s to today. Friendship was one of the bonds that made Bauman and Beilharz’s intellectual collaboration possible. Though the two were worlds apart in terms of biography and place, their work together was defined by a certain kind of intimacy. Separated by a generation, they collaborated for a generation together. This book follows their story in touching detail while puzzling over Bauman’s rich yet contested legacy.