Zygmunt Bauman
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Zygmunt Bauman (born 1925 in Poznan, Poland) is a British sociologist of Polish-Jewish descent. From 1971 until 1990 he was professor of sociology at the University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom. In the late 1980s, he gained prominence through his studies on the connection between the culture of modernity and totalitarianism, especially German national socialism and the holocaust.
Life
Born to non-practising Jewish parents in Poznan, Poland, in 1925, Bauman escaped into the Soviet zone of occupation, after Poland was invaded by Nazi-German troops in 1939 at the beginning of World War II, and later served in a Soviet-controlled Polish military unit. After the war, he began to study sociology at the University of Warsaw, where he rose to the position of professor. In March 1968, an anti-Semitic purge in the wake of Israel's Six-Day War drove most surviving and remaining Polish Jews out of the country, including many intellectuals who had fallen from grace with the communist Polish government. Bauman, who had lost his chair at the University of Warsaw. was one of them. He first went to Israel to teach at Tel Aviv University, before accepting a chair in sociology at the University of Leeds, where he intermittently also served as head of department. His research interest focused around social stratification, the labour movement, before shifting to more global concerns, such as the nature of modernity etc. The most prolific period of his career began after his retirement from teaching at Leeds, when he rose to prominence outside the circles of professional sociologists with a book on the presumed connection between the ideology of the modernity and the Holocaust.
Works
- 1962, (co-edited with S. Chodak, J. Strojnowski, J. Banaszkiewicz): Systemy partyjne współczesnego kapitalizmu [The Party Systems of Modern Capitalism]. Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza.
- 1962: Spoleczeństwo, w ktorym żyjemy. [The Society We Live In.] Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza.
- 1964: Zarys marksistowskiej teorii spoleczeństwa. [Outline of the Marxist Theory of Society. Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.]
- 1965: Wizje ludzkiego świata. Studia nad społeczną genezą i funkcją socjologii. [Visions of a Human World. Studies on the social genesis and the function of sociology. Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza.]
- 1972: Between Class and Elite. The Evolution of the British Labour Movement. A Sociological Study. Manchester: Manchester University Press ISBN 0719005027 (Polish original 1960)
- 1973: Culture as Praxis. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0761959890
- 1976: Socialism: The Active Utopia. New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers. ISBN 0841902402
- 1976: Towards a Critical Sociology: An Essay on Common-Sense and Emancipation. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0710083068
- 1978: Hermeneutics and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0091325315
- 1982: Memories of Class: The Pre-history and After-life of Class. London/Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0710091966
- 1987: Legislators and interpreters - On Modernity, Post-Modernity, Intellectuals. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801421047
- 1988: Freedom. Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 0335155928
- 1989: Modernity and The Holocaust. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press 1989. ISBN 080142397X
- 1990: Paradoxes of Assimilation. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
- 1990: Thinking Sociologically. An introduction for Everyone. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 0631163611
- 1991: Modernity and Ambivalence. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801426030
- 1992: Intimations of Postmodernity. London, New York: Routhledge. ISBN 0415067502
- 1992: Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 0745610161
- 1993: Postmodern Ethics. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-18693-X
- 1995: Life in Fragments. Essays in Postmodern Morality. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 0631192670
- 1996: Alone Again - Ethics After Certainty. London: Demos. ISBN 1-898-30940-X
- 1997: Postmodernity and its discontents. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0745617913
- 1998: Work, consumerism and the new poor. Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 0335201555
- 1998: Globalization: The Human Consequences. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0745620124
- 1999: In Search of Politics. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 0745621724
- 2000: Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press ISBN 074562409X
- 2001: Community. Seeking Safety in an Insecure World. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 0745626343
- 2001: The Individualized Society. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 0745625061
- 2002: Society Under Siege. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 0745629849
- 2003: Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds, Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 0745624898
- 2004: Wasted Lives. Modernity and its Outcasts. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 0745631649
- 2004: Europe: An Unfinished Adventure. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 0745634036
- 2005: Liquid Life. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 0745635148
External links
- Bauman's resume (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/people/bauman.htm) on the official staff list of the University of Leeds's School of Sociology and Social Policy (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/index.htm)
- Free full-text download of Alone Again - Ethics After Certainty (1996) from the official publisher Demos (http://www.demos.co.uk/catalogue/aloneagain/)de:Zygmunt Bauman