Peter Beilharz is Professor of Sociology at the School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.

• VOLUME ONEPART ONE: PROFILES AND SURVEYSReading Zygmunt Bauman - Peter BeilharzLooking for CluesModernity, Postmodernity and Ethics - Zygmunt Bauman, Timo Cantell and Poul Poder Pedersen An Interview with Zygmunt BaumanThe Journey Never Ends - Zygmunt Bauman and Peter BeilharzZygmunt Bauman Talks with Peter BeilharzGespr[um]ach mit Janina Bauman and Zygmunt Bauman - Janina Bauman and Zygmunt Bauman Context and Sociological Horizons - Zygmunt Bauman and Keith Tester Three Appreciations of Zygmunt Bauman - Richard Kilminster and Ian Varcoe Bauman′s Ways of Seeing the World - Stefan Morawski Zygmunt Bauman - Dennis Smith How to Be a Successful OutsiderIdentity and the Limits of Comparison - Ian Varcoe Bauman′s Reception in GermanyModernity and Tough JewsThe Right to Inconsistency - Pieter Nijhoff Sociology, Postmodernity and Exile - Zygmunt Bauman, Richard Kilminster and Ian Varcoe An Interview with Zygmunt BaumanCulture and Power in the Writings of Zygmunt Bauman - Ian Varcoe and Richard Kilminster Laudatio f[um]ur Zygmunt Bauman - Claus Offe Zygmunt Bauman - Barry Smart Demons of Other People′s Fear - Janina Bauman The Plight of the GypsiesThe Walls Tighten around Us - Janina Bauman A Dream of Belonging - Janina Bauman My Years in Postwar PolandA Review of Janina Bauman′s Winter in the Morning - Wladyslaw Bartoszewski Out of the Ghetto - Patrick WrightA Sad Story - Carole AngierEndings and Contradictions - Murray Baumgarten Observations on Holocaust LiteraturePART TWO: SOCIALISM AND INTELLECTUALSPoland and Britain - Julian Hochfeld Two Concepts of SocialismThe Origins and Significance of East European Revisionism - Karl Reyman and Herman SingerPolish Revisionism - James H Satterwhite Critical Thinking in Poland from 1953A Pleading for Revolution - Leszek Kolakowski A Rejoinder to Z BaumanThe Social Role of Eastern European Intellectuals Reconsidered - Lewis A Coser Intellectuals and Modernity - David RobertsA Postmodern PerspectiveVOLUME TWOPART THREE: THE HOLOCAUSTBauman in Germany - Hans Joas Modern Violence and the Problems of German Self-UnderstandingModernity and Totalitarianism - Luciano Pellicani Modernity, Libertarianism and Critical Theory - Alex Delfini and Paul Piccone Reply to PellicaniGenocide, Civilization and Modernity - Michael Freeman Genocide and Decivilizing Processes in Germany - Jonathan Fletcher Civilization and Ambivalence - Ian BurkittHolocaust Topologies - David B Clarke, Marcus A Doel and Francis X McDonough Singularity, Politics, SpaceThe Holocaust and the Modernization of Gender - Ann Taylor Allen A Historiographical EssayThe Terrorism of Reason in the Thought of Zygmunt Bauman - David Torevell Sociology, History and the Holocaust - Ivar Oxaal Race, Ethnicity and the Rational Organization of Evil - John Rex Modernity, the Holocaust and Politics - Rosemary H T O′Kane Testimonies and Studies - Edith Kurzweil The Holocaust, Modernity and Tough Jews - Jack Zipes Genocide and the Social Production of Immorality - Ruth Jamieson [um]Uber die Rationalit[um]at des B[um]osen - Zygmunt Bauman, Harald Welzer and Peter BeilharzInterview mit Zygmunt BaumanModernity and the Holocaust - A D Moses Overall Interpretations - Yehuda Bauer Zygmunt Bauman, Jeffrey Herf, Goetz AlyHistoricizing the Holocaust - Dominick LaCapra Genocide and the Social Production of Immortality - Andrew Charlesworth Towards a Geography of the Shoah - R Kilminster and I VarcoeThe Critique of Instrumental Rationality - Robert Fine PART FOUR: THE POSTMODERNZygmunt Bauman′s Postmodern Turn - Douglas Kellner Postmodern Ethics - Scott Lash The Missing GroundZygmunt Bauman - George Ritzer From Modern to PostmodernZygmunt Bauman - Steven Seidman Modernity, Postmodernity and the New Middle Ages - Dennis Smith VOLUME THREEPART FOUR: THE POSTMODERN (CONTINUED)The Discontented Epoch - Tim May Freedom and Security in Bauman′s PostmodernityInter Putatorem et Vastitatem - Michael Crozier The Ambivalences of the Garden Metaphor in ModernityThe Consequences of Alterity - Gillian Robinson Zygmunt Bauman′s Modernity and AmbivalenceZygmunt Bauman - Shaun Best Personal Reflections within the Mainstream of ModernityClosed Spaces Restricted Places - Angus Bancroft The Resurgence of Politics in the Work of Zygmunt BaumanReview of Liquid Modernity - Robert Campain PART FIVE: ETHICSWhy Does Proximity Make a Moral Difference? Coming to Terms with a Lesson Learned from the Holocaust - Arne Johan Vetlesen Business Ethics and Bauman Ethics - Ren[ac]e Ten Bos Postmodernity and the Ethics of Care - Ross Abbinnett Situating Bauman′s Social TheoryAn Ethics of the Ephemeral? The Possibilities and Impossibilities of Zygmunt Bauman′s Ethics: A Review of Some Recent Books by Zygmunt Bauman - Alan Latham Making Moral Citizens - Keith Tester On Himmelfarb′s De-Moralization ThesisDurkheim, Morality and Modernity - Chris Shilling and Philip A Mellor Collective Effervescence, Homo Duplex and the Sources of Moral ActionIn Defence of a Dialectical Ethic beyond Postmodern Morality - Mark Mason Zygmunt Bauman′s Poisoned Gift of Morality - Matthias Junge PART SIX: DEATH AND RELIGIONReview of Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies - Robert BocockDeath, Medicine and the Right to Die - Thomas F Tierney An Engagement with Heidegger, Bauman and BaudrillardModernity, Mortality and Mystery - Anton A van Niekerk Death. So What? Sociology, Sequestration and Emancipation - Hugh Willmott Postmodernity, High Modernity and New Modernity - James A Beckford Three Concepts in Search of ReligionPART SEVEN: SOCIOLOGY AND MARXISMSociety under Suspicion - Nigel Dodd Bauman and RortyCreativity and the Rise of Social Postmodernism - Gerard Delanty Foucault, Lyotard and BaumanAgainst ′Modernity′ - Anthony Woodiwiss A Dissident RantIs Bauman′s Bureau Weber′s Bureau? A Comment - Paul du Gay The Stranger and Social Theory - Vince Marotta McFascism? Reading Ritzer, Bauman and the Holocaust - Peter Beilharz VOLUME FOURPART SEVEN: SOCIOLGY AND MARXISM (CONTINUED)Counting Memories? Revisiting Bauman, Reading Wright - Peter Beilharz Review of Memories of Class - Maurizio D′Entr[gr]eves Dead Indians, Flawed Consumers and Snowballs in Hell - Trevor Hogan On Zygmunt Bauman′s New PoorAfter the Poor - Geoff Sharp A Future with a PastConsumers, Identity and Belonging - Alan Warde Reflections on Some Theses of Zygmunt BaumanConsumption, Identity-Formation and Uncertainty - Alan Warde Bauman, Intellectuals and Modernity - Ian Heywood PART EIGHT: EXTENSIONSTranscending Modernity? Individualism, Ethics and Japanese Discourses of Difference in the Postwar World - John Clammer Hybridity Globalization and the Stranger - B[um]ulent Diken The Impertinence of Intellectuals - Joanildo A Burity Democracy and Postmodernity in Latin AmericaOn Communism, Post-Communism, Modernity and Postmodernity - Leslie Holmes Introduction to Organizing Modernity - John Law Privileged Nomads - Dick Pels The Color of Jews - Jon StrattonJews, Race and the White Australia PolicyThe Feminization of Stigma in the Relationship between Israelis and Shoah Survivors - Ronit LentinCannibalism and Bulimia - Jock YoungModernity and Behaviour Control - Nils ChristieThe Utopics of Modernity - Kevin HetheringtonAuthoritarian High Modernism - James C Scott