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Zygmunt Bauman
(b.1925 in Poland) is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, having served as Professor of Sociology and, at various times, Head of Department at Leeds from 1972 until his retirement in 1990. He was formerly at the University of Warsaw until 1968 and the University of Tel Aviv holding several visiting professorships, in Australia and elsewhere, before coming to Leeds. Bauman is one of the most prominent social theorists of his time. He has published various books, articles and reviews. Amongst his books are Legislators and Interpreters (1987), Modernity and the Holocaust (1989), Modernity and Ambivalence (1991) and Postmodern Ethics (1993).
Eurozine Articles
The unwinnable war
An interview with Zygmunt Bauman
In the East, impoverished masses are lured into anti-Westernism; in the West, the State seeks to regain its legitimacy via the War on Terror. A vicious cycle of global insecurity is underway. [more]
A postmodern grid of the worldmap?
An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman
How can contemporary social theories be used to describe our dimensions of human existence? [more]
