Itinéraires d’une sociologie liquide

• Main Author: Simon Tabet
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Les Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme 2017-06-01
• Series: Socio
• Subjects: Zygmunt Bauman; liquid sociology; compared reception; critique of modernity; liquid modernity; culture
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/socio/2704

Zygmunt Bauman’s sociology has known very divers receptions, depending on the intellectual contexts and periods of writing. Through a study of the proliferous work of the author, this article aims at describing the different steps of this path, in order to grasp the process leading to such disparities. This analysis tries to explain the feeble reception of the thinker within the French intellectual sphere, as well as the several polemics engendered by his work in the English-speaking academic world. Lastly, this article would like to partially define the form and status of what the author has called “liquid sociology” in recent years.