Utopianism in the Work of Zygmunt Bauman - Sociologi - Aalborg ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Mannheim, Karl (1936/1976): Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the So- ciology of Knowledge. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Marin, Louis (1992): “Frontiers of Utopia: Past and Present”. Critical Inquiry, 19 (3):397-420. Morawski, Stefan (1998): “Bauman’s Way of Seeing the World”. Theory, Cul- ture & Society, 15 (1):29-38. More, Thomas (1516/1965): Utopia. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Olson, Theodore (1982): Millenarianism, Utopianism and Progress. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. O’Neill, John (1993): “McTopia: Eating Time”, in Kumar, Krishan & Stephen Bann (eds.): Utopias and the Millennium. London: Reaktion Books. Ritzer, George A. (1997): Postmodern Social Theory. New York: McGraw- Hill. Rorty, Richard (1999): Philosophy and Social Hope. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. Rouvillois, Frédéric (2000): “Utopia and Totalitarianism”, in Schaer, Roland et al.: Utopia – The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World. New York: Oxford University Press. Sargent, Lyman T. (2000): “Utopian Traditions: Themes and Variations”, in Schaer, Roland et al.: Utopia – The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World. New York: Oxford University Press. Seidman, Steven (1998): Contested Knowledge: Social Theory in the Postmod- ern Era. Oxford: Blackwell. Tester, Keith (2002a): “Paths in Zygmunt Bauman’s Social Thought”. Thesis Eleven, 70:55-71. Tester, Keith (2002b): Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociological Style. Unpublished manuscript provided by the author. 54
Tillich, Paul (1973): “Critique and Justification of Utopia”, in Manuel, Frank E. (ed.): Utopias and Utopian Thought. London: Souvenir Press. Touraine, Alain (2000): “Society as Utopia”, in Schaer, Roland et al.: Utopia – The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World. New York: Oxford University Press. Turner, Victor W. (1969): The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Ulam, Adam (1973): “Socialism and Utopia”, in Manuel, Frank E. (ed.): Uto- pias and Utopian Thought. London: Souvenir Press. Wright, Erik Olin (2003): “Preface: The Real Utopias Project”, in Fung, Ar- chon & Erik Olin Wright (eds.): Deepening Democracy – The Real Uto- pias Project IV. London: Verso. 1 Bauman himself is suspicious of the myopic understanding that has determined the fate of the concept of ‘utopia’: “I suspect that in our social-scientific usage all too often we unduly narrow down the concept of ‘utopia’ to the early modern blueprints of the good society, understood as a kind of totality which pre-empts its members’ choices and determines in advance their goodness, however, understood […] I am now inclined to accept that utopia is an undetachable part of the human condition […] I now believe that utopia is one of humanity’s constituents, a ‘constant’ in the human way of being-in-the-world. This does not mean that all utopias are equally good. Utopias may lead to a better life as much as they may mislead and turn away from what a better life would require to be done” (Bauman & Tester 2001:48-50). Throughout the years he has moved from the somewhat narrow understanding to a much 55
Page 1 and 2:
Sociologisk Arbejdspapir Nr. 16, 20
Page 3 and 4: Utopianism in the Work of Zygmunt B
Page 5 and 6: List of Content The Universal Quest
Page 7 and 8: of modernity and postmodernity have
Page 9 and 10: stood for ‘all situationally tran
Page 11 and 12: However, also a third option is app
Page 13 and 14: where duties and obligations go han
Page 15 and 16: into iron-cages of totalitarianism
Page 17 and 18: These principles stay with me all t
Page 19 and 20: stays beyond human reach as a state
Page 21 and 22: incontrovertible truth but instead
Page 23 and 24: nity much to their own misfortune a
Page 25 and 26: out of the desire to control, corre
Page 27 and 28: tised. Utopias have, however, not b
Page 29 and 30: nor solely dystopian, although many
Page 31 and 32: This is also part and parcel of Bau
Page 33 and 34: on his notions of what utopia means
Page 35 and 36: style nightmares” (Bauman 2000a:1
Page 37 and 38: suffering and daily degradation. Wi
Page 39 and 40: Especially in what could be termed
Page 41 and 42: clusive and potentially universal c
Page 43 and 44: we should instead optimistically be
Page 45 and 46: A voice of utopian hope resonates i
Page 47 and 48: teristic of their times and their e
Page 49 and 50: Bauman, Zygmunt (1990b): “From Pi
Page 51 and 52: Bobbio, Noberto (1989): “The Uptu
Page 53: Jacobsen, Michael H. (2003d): “Fr
Page 57 and 58: change” (Wright 2003:viii). So fa
show all

Utopianism in the Work of Zygmunt Bauman - Sociologi - Aalborg ...

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?