Zygmunt Bauman’s Modern and Postmodern Human Metaphors
Journal Title: İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue 50
Abstract
Zygmunt Bauman is the forefront of productive sociologists of the 21st century. Today, instead of positivist sociology, he has sought to construct a sociology that is 'hermeneutic'. The central themes of his works are the terms of modernity, postmodernity, the Holocaust, ambiguity, consumption, bureaucracy, ethics, other, globalization, foreign, intellectual. Bauman, who works interdisciplinary in his work, uses metaphors extensively. He strives to take a step into humanization through metaphors. Metaphors in this sense are valuable in terms of empathizing and putting responsibility for someone else. In addition, Bauman emphasizes the similarity between sociology and art. This reflects his pragmatic, eclectic approach. In various character solutions in the framework of modern and postmodern theme. The modern characters are 'pilgrims', the postmodern characters are 'flaneur', 'vagabond', 'tourist' and 'player'. In this study, these characters will be tried to be solved by descriptive method.
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Cengiz KANIK
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