Bauman and Heller: Two Views of Modernity and Culture

Estudos Científicos sobre a obra “Modernidade Líquida” de Zygmunt Bauman

“…Ao analisar as obras de Bauman e Heller, Beilharz (2017) encontrou convergência quanto a dar valor às pequenas coisas do cotidiano. Entretanto, Bauman pensa no cuidado com o próximo e é mais pessimista quanto à modernidade e à cultura, enquanto Heller acredita mais na individualidade e é mais otimista nesse sentido.…”

“…Em 11 das pesquisas (Alvarez-Rincon, 2019;Gonçalves, 2019;Henao, 2018;Halas, 2016;Lemos & da Silva, 2016;Baliscei et al, 2016;Villasenor, 2015;Palese, 2013;Ybema et al, 2009;Núñez Ladevéze et al, 2020;Ostrovskaya et al, 2015) não foram identificadas sugestões para pesquisas futuras, apenas nas pesquisas dos autores Rangel & Rangel, 2020;Grimaldi et al, 2019;Beilharz, 2017;de Oliveira & Sancho, 2015;Gevehr, 2016;Beck, 2002…”

“…Ao analisar os artigos selecionados nesta revisão sistemática de forma qualitativa a partir da leitura dos artigos, identificou-se que a modernidade líquida de Bauman, de modo geral, é aceita pelos autores e abordada de diversas formas nos textos e com diversos pseudônimos: vida líquida, sociedade líquida, liquidez, fluidez. Mesmo Beilharz (2017), ao dizer que Bauman tem uma visão pessimista quanto à modernidade e a cultura, não discorda das ideias dele.…”

Circling Beilharz? More like a wobbly orbiting

“…Across his body of work, Beilharz regularly returns to the intellectuals, the interpreters, often putting multiple interlocutors into conversation with a hermeneutical approach that seems to be distinctly Beilharzian, a participant conductor – a bandmate, perhaps a sensitive drummer – finding and setting the rhythm, drawing out the silences or using silence as an additional instrument, heightening the contrapuntal tendencies in an argument or across positions, feeling, listening for, and amplifying the resonances between sometimes seemingly different views. A couple of examples, among many , that come to mind for me in this regard are ‘Bauman and Heller: Two views of modernity and culture’ (Beilharz, 2017) or ‘The worlds we create’ (Beilharz, 2006), the latter putting Beilharz in conversation not just with Bauman, but also with Castoriadis, Foucault, and Agamben. For extensive illustrations of this approach, and really a masterclass in writing, one should see the collected essays, especially those in sections 2 and 3 of Circling Marx (Beilharz, 2020a), one of my favorites being ‘Marx, modernity and motion’ for its pace, movement between optics, and orchestration of echoes across place, time, and positions.…”

Agnes Heller: Changing Aspects of Her Socialist Theory in the 1980s

“…For Heller, Soviet socialism became corrupted because the Communist Party initiated the social domination and totalization according to its supreme will. Peter Beilharz (2017: 56) suggests that Heller approaches the problem of modernity directly through the Soviet experience and her diagnosis of the Soviet-type societies becomes one of the key themes in her work on culture and modernity. Beilharz rightly points out that the book certainly discusses the Soviet form of modernization and prepares Heller for a closer investigation of modernity.…”