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

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VOLUME ONE PART ONE: PROFILES AND SURVEYS Reading Zygmunt Bauman - Peter Beilharz Looking for Clues Modernity, Postmodernity and Ethics - Zygmunt Bauman, Timo Cantell and Poul Poder Pedersen An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman The Journey Never Ends - Zygmunt Bauman and Peter Beilharz Zygmunt Bauman Talks with Peter Beilharz Gespr[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 Outsider Identity and the Limits of Comparison - Ian Varcoe Bauman's Reception in Germany Modernity and Tough Jews The Right to Inconsistency - Pieter Nijhoff Sociology, Postmodernity and Exile - Zygmunt Bauman, Richard Kilminster and Ian Varcoe An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman Culture 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 Gypsies The Walls Tighten around Us - Janina Bauman A Dream of Belonging - Janina Bauman My Years in Postwar Poland A Review of Janina Bauman's Winter in the Morning - Wladyslaw Bartoszewski Out of the Ghetto - Patrick Wright A Sad Story - Carole Angier Endings and Contradictions - Murray Baumgarten Observations on Holocaust Literature PART TWO: SOCIALISM AND INTELLECTUALS Poland and Britain - Julian Hochfeld Two Concepts of Socialism The Origins and Significance of East European Revisionism - Karl Reyman and Herman Singer Polish Revisionism - James H Satterwhite Critical Thinking in Poland from 1953 A Pleading for Revolution - Leszek Kolakowski A Rejoinder to Z Bauman The Social Role of Eastern European Intellectuals Reconsidered - Lewis A Coser Intellectuals and Modernity - David Roberts A Postmodern Perspective VOLUME TWO PART THREE: THE HOLOCAUST Bauman in Germany - Hans Joas Modern Violence and the Problems of German Self-Understanding Modernity and Totalitarianism - Luciano Pellicani Modernity, Libertarianism and Critical Theory - Alex Delfini and Paul Piccone Reply to Pellicani Genocide, Civilization and Modernity - Michael Freeman Genocide and Decivilizing Processes in Germany - Jonathan Fletcher Civilization and Ambivalence - Ian Burkitt Holocaust Topologies - David B Clarke, Marcus A Doel and Francis X McDonough Singularity, Politics, Space The Holocaust and the Modernization of Gender - Ann Taylor Allen A Historiographical Essay The 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 Beilharz Interview mit Zygmunt Bauman Modernity and the Holocaust - A D Moses Overall Interpretations - Yehuda Bauer Zygmunt Bauman, Jeffrey Herf, Goetz Aly Historicizing the Holocaust - Dominick LaCapra Genocide and the Social Production of Immortality - Andrew Charlesworth Towards a Geography of the Shoah - R Kilminster and I Varcoe The Critique of Instrumental Rationality - Robert Fine PART FOUR: THE POSTMODERN Zygmunt Bauman's Postmodern Turn - Douglas Kellner Postmodern Ethics - Scott Lash The Missing Ground Zygmunt Bauman - George Ritzer From Modern to Postmodern Zygmunt Bauman - Steven Seidman Modernity, Postmodernity and the New Middle Ages - Dennis Smith VOLUME THREE PART FOUR: THE POSTMODERN (CONTINUED) The Discontented Epoch - Tim May Freedom and Security in Bauman's Postmodernity Inter Putatorem et Vastitatem - Michael Crozier The Ambivalences of the Garden Metaphor in Modernity The Consequences of Alterity - Gillian Robinson Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and Ambivalence Zygmunt Bauman - Shaun Best Personal Reflections within the Mainstream of Modernity Closed Spaces Restricted Places - Angus Bancroft The Resurgence of Politics in the Work of Zygmunt Bauman Review of Liquid Modernity - Robert Campain PART FIVE: ETHICS Why 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 Theory An 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 Thesis Durkheim, Morality and Modernity - Chris Shilling and Philip A Mellor Collective Effervescence, Homo Duplex and the Sources of Moral Action In Defence of a Dialectical Ethic beyond Postmodern Morality - Mark Mason Zygmunt Bauman's Poisoned Gift of Morality - Matthias Junge PART SIX: DEATH AND RELIGION Review of Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies - Robert Bocock Death, Medicine and the Right to Die - Thomas F Tierney An Engagement with Heidegger, Bauman and Baudrillard Modernity, 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 Religion PART SEVEN: SOCIOLOGY AND MARXISM Society under Suspicion - Nigel Dodd Bauman and Rorty Creativity and the Rise of Social Postmodernism - Gerard Delanty Foucault, Lyotard and Bauman Against 'Modernity' - Anthony Woodiwiss A Dissident Rant Is 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 FOUR PART 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 Poor After the Poor - Geoff Sharp A Future with a Past Consumers, Identity and Belonging - Alan Warde Reflections on Some Theses of Zygmunt Bauman Consumption, Identity-Formation and Uncertainty - Alan Warde Bauman, Intellectuals and Modernity - Ian Heywood PART EIGHT: EXTENSIONS Transcending 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 America On Communism, Post-Communism, Modernity and Postmodernity - Leslie Holmes Introduction to Organizing Modernity - John Law Privileged Nomads - Dick Pels The Color of Jews - Jon Stratton Jews, Race and the White Australia Policy The Feminization of Stigma in the Relationship between Israelis and Shoah Survivors - Ronit Lentin Cannibalism and Bulimia - Jock Young Modernity and Behaviour Control - Nils Christie The Utopics of Modernity - Kevin Hetherington Authoritarian High Modernism - James C Scott