Zygmunt Bauman
Polish sociologist and philosopher (1925–2017) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zygmunt Bauman (/ˈbaʊmən/; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish-born sociologist and philosopher.[1] He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrated to Israel; three years later he moved to the United Kingdom. He resided in England from 1971, where he studied at the London School of Economics and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, later emeritus. Bauman was a social theorist, writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity.[2]
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Born | (1925-11-19)19 November 1925 |
Died | 9 January 2017(2017-01-09) (aged 91) Leeds, West Yorkshire, England |
Alma mater | University of Warsaw London School of Economics |
School | Continental philosophy · Western Marxism |
Main interests | Ethics · Political philosophy · Sociology · Postmodernity · Postmodern art |
Notable ideas | Modernity's struggle with ambiguity, resulting in the Holocaust · postmodern ethics · critique of "liquid" modernity · liquid fear · Allosemitism |
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