Zygmunt Bauman
Polish philosopher and sociologist (1925-2017)
Zygmunt Bauman (19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017[1]) was a Polish-British sociologist and philosopher. He had been living in England since 1971.
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| Born | November 19, 1925 |
| Died | 9 January 2017 (aged 91) |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw London School of Economics |
| Era | 20th / 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| 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 |
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Life
changeBauman was born to a Jewish family in Poland.
After World War II, he rose in the ranks of Poland's military and by the early 1950s he had become one of the youngest majors in the Polish army, but was driven out of Poland by a political purge in 1953 engineered by the Communist government of the Polish People's Republic.
He was the Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds. Bauman was one of the world's most eminent social theorists writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity.[2]
Related pages
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change- ↑ "Polish-Born Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman Dies in UK at Age 91 - NYTimes.com". Archived from the original on 2017-01-10. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
- ↑ Bauman, Z. (2000). Liquid modernity. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 074562409X. OCLC 749152148.
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