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Zygmunt Bauman: Order, Strangerhood and Freedom

Vince Marotta

Thesis Eleven 70 (1):36-54 (2002)

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The Uses of the Stranger: Circulation, Arbitration, Secrecy, and Dirt.Nedim Karakayali - 2006 - Sociological Theory 24 (4):312 - 330.details Little attention has been paid to the role of strangers in the social division of labor that is otherwise a key concept in sociological theory. Partly drawing upon Simmel, this article develops a general framework for analyzing the "uses" of "the stranger" throughout history. Four major domains in which strangers have often been employed are identified: (1) circulation (of goods, money, and information); (2) arbitration; (3) management of secret/sacred domains; and (4) "dirty jobs." The article also explores how these activities (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Optimism and agency in the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman.Matt Dawson - 2012 - European Journal of Social Theory 15 (4):555-570.details Zygmunt Bauman’s sociology has often been seen as a bleak worldview; he has been called the ‘sociologist of misery’. This article argues that assigning pessimism and misery to Bauman’s work relies on a reading which does not fully consider his sociology of morality. When this is accounted for, Bauman can be seen to have a very optimistic worldview. The significance of such an observation rests on where Bauman’s optimism lies—namely in the hands of inevitably moral individuals who can acquiesce to, (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 7 citations
Liquidity Crisis: Zygmunt Bauman and the Incredible Lightness of Modernity.Martin Jay - 2010 - Theory, Culture and Society 27 (6):95-106.details After having promoted and then tacitly abandoned the rhetoric of postmodernism, Zygmunt Bauman settled on the metaphor of a modernity that was growing more ‘liquid’ and ‘lighter’ than before. This essay explores the strengths and weaknesses of these metaphors, and attempts to contextualize Bauman’s insights in what has been called by the historian Yuri Slezkine the ‘Mercurian’ culture of diasporic Jewish life. Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
The wife as stranger in the family.Susara J. Nortjé-Meyer - 2019 - HTS Theological Studies 75 (3).details The phenomenon of the stranger reveals that spatial relations are, on the one hand, only the condition and, on the other hand, the symbol of human relations. This article discusses the specific form of interaction of the wife as a stranger in the context of the biblical family. The wife as a stranger is discussed here not in the sense often touched upon in the past, as a wanderer who comes today and goes tomorrow, but rather as a person who (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Zygmunt Bauman’s window: From Jews to strangers and back again.Bryan Cheyette - 2020 - Thesis Eleven 156 (1):67-85.details Legislators and Interpreters (1987), Modernity and the Holocaust (1989) and Modernity and Ambivalence (1991) are the foundational trilogy on which Zygmunt Bauman developed much of his later work (from postmodernity to liquid modernity and from “the Jew” to “the Stranger”). This article is a unique engagement with the trilogy and with the metaphorical thinking which relates the trilogy to Bauman's later work in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The article is divided into three parts focusing broadly on (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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