Davis, M orcid.org/0000-0001-5886-4790 (2020) Hermeneutics contra fundamentalism: Zygmunt Bauman’s method for thinking in dark times. Thesis Eleven, 156 (1). pp. 27-44. ISSN 0725-5136
Abstract
Faced with a rise of populism seemingly in all corners of the globe, the need to facilitate meaningful communication between different world-views and to resist the closing down of dialogue is pressing. In this paper, I argue that Zygmunt Bauman’s sociological method has always been concerned with this problem and that a better appreciation of his writings on hermeneutics provides us with a vital strategy for resisting fundamentalist thinking in today’s dark times. To begin, I briefly explore the relationship between hermeneutics and fundamentalism before moving on to elaborate Bauman’s method of sociological hermeneutics. In the final section of the paper, I assess the implications that Bauman’s method has for the discipline of sociology at a time when the certainty of things is the most avid of dreams dreamed by people harassed and oppressed by the uncertainty of liquid modern life, apparently whatever the human consequences.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Thesis Eleven. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Bauman, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, populism, sociology |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 16 Jan 2020 10:29 |
Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2020 15:35 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0725513619898285 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:152700 |