Zygmunt Bauman, Agostino Portera (Italy University of Verona)

Education and Intercultural Identity

A Dialogue between Zygmunt Bauman and Agostino Portera
Herausgeber: Mazzeo, Riccardo

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Education and Intercultural Identity offers a dialogue between influential authors Zygmunt Bauman and Agostino Portera that reflects on and discusses contemporary events and issues relating to the crisis of global normativity, education and intercultural identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 138mm x 216mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 126g
• ISBN-13: 9780367642563
• ISBN-10: 0367642565
• Artikelnr.: 65610404

Autorenporträt

Zygmunt Bauman has been one of the most influent sociologists of the last century and of the first two decades of the present century. Among his dozens of books, Modernity and the Holocaust and Liquid Modernity. Agostino Portera is Professor at the University of Verona, Italy and visiting Professor all over the world. As a prominent expert of intercultural studies he has published many books in Italian and English. Riccardo Mazzeo is an editor, an essayist and a translator. His published books include In Education and In Praise of Literature with Zygmunt Bauman.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction (Riccardo Mazzeo)
Introduction
Part 2: The dialogue between the authors (Zygmunt Bauman and Agostino
Portera)
1. Risks and challenges of globalisation, interdependence and cultural
pluralism
2. Religious pluralism: clash of civilisations or opportunity of encounter?
3. Pollution and loss of biodiversity: is the human species at risk of
extinction?
4. Identity in a time of glocalization and liquid modernity
Part 3: Conclusions (Agostino Portera)
Conclusions