Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis in Dialogue: The Labyrinth of Liquid Modernity

Zeger Polhuijs

doi:10.5771/9781978710214

Summary

In a time of reflection on the pre-pandemic past and post-Covid future, the mutual exchange between Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis emerges as one of the most fruitful dialogues in contemporary social thought. Bauman’s analyses on liquid modernity and Francis’s warnings on a “globalization of indifference” together with his global vision of constructing human fraternity constitute a dialogue-at-a-distance on liquidity and concreteness. This meeting of two very different minds, culminating in a personal encounter in the city of Assisi, now provides us with rich sociological and theological perspectives on the challenges that believers of various religions and non-believers share while navigating the complexities of a liquid modern world in global disorder. In Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis in Dialogue: The Labyrinth of Liquid Modernity, Zeger Polhuijs recounts and analyzes the development of the thought of Bauman and Francis and the role their mutual exchange played in each other’s development. He offers no blueprints for the future, but tools for thought and action to initiate processes of change, dialogue, and concrete solidarity in the face of global disorder.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1020-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1021-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 196
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Notes No access
1. 1. Liquid Modernity No access
  2. Consumerism No access
  3. Inequality No access
  4. Hope and Hopelessness No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Pope Francis No access
  2. The Art of Dialogue No access
  3. Excursus: Bauman on Religion No access
  4. A Dialogue about Dialogue No access
  5. A Repertoire for a New Era No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. A New European Humanism No access
  2. Excursus: Bauman on Europe as an Unfinished Adventure No access
  3. New Walls Rising in Europe No access
  4. The Roots of Liquid Evil No access
  5. Globalization of Indifference Revisited No access
  6. Notes No access
4. 1. Assisi No access
  2. A Global Dialogue No access
  3. Endspiel No access
  4. Notes No access
5. 1. Dialogue in the Age of Retrotopia No access
  2. Overcoming The Great Regression No access
  3. The Gift No access
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1. 1. The Social Thought of Jorge Mario Bergoglio No access
  2. Evangelii Gaudium and the Practice of Social Dialogue No access
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2. 1. From Liquidity to Concreteness No access
  2. Liquid Society, Gaseous Society No access
  3. Fraternity in a Time of Uncertainty No access
  4. The Creative Tension of an Incomplete Thought No access
  5. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
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Bibliography No access Pages 177 - 186
Index No access Pages 187 - 194
About the Author No access Pages 195 - 196