Zygmunt Bauman’s moral saint: Reclaiming self in the sociology of morality

Zygmunt Bauman’s sociology of morality signals an important new direction from the orthodoxy of Emile Durkheim’s ‘society’ realised ethics. The first part of this paper defends Bauman’s post-modern position as valuable in theorising the moral present, offering a sociological conception of the source...

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Published in:Acta sociologica 2017-11, Vol.60 (4), p.358-367
Main Author: Hookway, Nicholas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authenticity
Bauman, Zygmunt (1925-2017)
Criticism
Durkheim, Emile (1858-1917)
Emotions
Ethics
Fulfilment
Morality
Otherness
Postmodernism
Self concept
Social theories
Sociology
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