Social Thought of Zygmunt Bauman

KEITH TESTER is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull, UK. He is the author of a number of books and co-author of Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman.

'Nobody understands Zygmunt Bauman better than Keith Tester. Tester constructs a dialogue with Bauman, on his own terrain. The result is a hermeneutic personal and sociological at the same time. Bauman emerges from these pages as the persistent advocate of the good society and of human dignity. This is critical sociology at its best.' - Peter Beilharz, Director, Thesis Eleven Centre for Critical Theory, La Trobe University, Australia

• Acknowledgements Introduction Critical Thinking and Human Possibility The Emergence of an Imagination Socialism: Utopian and Cultural Communism and Modernity The Holocaust Postmodernity: Ethical Incentive, Indifferent World Sociology and the Challenge of Globalisation References