Despite strong criticism, functional reasoning is still present in social theory and research. However, references often remain hidden. As a consequence, potentials cannot unfold, nor shortcomings be reflected. Starting from this consideration, our special issue aims to reconsider the potentials and shortcomings of functional lines of thinking in current sociology.
Contributors: Alain Caillé, José Fernando Andrade Costa, Jorge Sola, Christine Magerski, Rafael Alvear, Céline Charlotte Casmir, Sean Braune, Chris Rojek, Jake Sokolofsky, Bernardo Paci, Gavin Rae, Mikkel Thorup, Alexander Kruglov and John Lechte
Contributors: Domonkos Sik, Mathew Abbott, Nikos Nikoletos, Fabian Cabaluz, Tomás Torres López, Harry Blatterer, Panu Minkkinen, Peter Beilharz and Frédéric Vandenberghe
Contributors: José Maurício Domingues, Daniel Cunningham, Wojciech Engelking, Mads Ejsing, Kristian Bondo Hansen and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Luyang Zhou, Emanuel Copilaş, Peter Beilharz, Andrew Wells, Nicola Marcucci
Contributors: David Roberts, Rob Shields and Nicholas Hardy, Thembisa Waetjen, Johan Trovik, Eduardo Enríquez Arévalo, Lorenzo Veracini and Dan Tout, Loïc Wacquant and Dieter Vandebroeck, Jonathan Fardy, Zeger Polhuijs, and Peter J Verovšek
The Photographs of Zygmunt Bauman, edited by Peter Beilharz and Janet Wolff (Manchester University Press, 2023)
Reviewed by Eric Ferris
Zygmunt Bauman, My Life in Fragments, edited by Izabela Wagner (Polity, 2023);
Zygmunt Bauman, History and Politics, edited by Mark Davis, Jack Palmer, Dariusz Brzezinski and Tom Campbell (Polity 2023).
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Review Essay: The Posthumous Bauman
By Matt Dawson
2023 saw six new books by, and about Zygmunt Bauman published. 6 years after his death, these texts were part of an emerging body of literature we may call The Posthumous Bauman. I explore the key lessons this literature has offered and suggest there are four key themes: our increased knowledge of Bauman’s life and its link, or not, to his sociology; the role of the hinterland for the sociologist; the increased interest in Bauman’s lifelong sociological project before he came to Leeds; and the differing receptions of Bauman’s work.
by Jeffrey C. Alexander
For many decades, Peter has been not only a thought partner but also an intimate friend, a thoughtful friend, a friendly fellow thinker, the other side of a personal and intellectual relationship I cannot think to be without.
Guest editors Fu Qilin and Peter Beilharz
Contributors: John Grumley, Shuai Shao, Norbert Ebert, Galin Tihanov, Qin Jiayang, David Roberts and Jokubas Salyga
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