The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has been helpful to me in understanding why things are falling apart, and what might feasibly be done about it — this, as part of writing The Benedict Option. Bauman is ...

The Polish-born sociologist Zygmunt Bauman s subtle and quietly insistent dissections of the human experience of modernity and globalisation have gradually won him recognition as a foremost scholar of ...

Reporting from Warsaw, Poland — Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most prominent and prolific European sociologists of recent decades, has died at the age of 91. The Polish-born left-wing thinker’s works ...

The name of Zygmunt Bauman prompts awe amongst fellow sociologists. "Late flowering" is the phrase which frequently crops up to describe his extraordinarily prolific output since his retirement from ...

Bauman eventually settled in Leeds, England, where he became an emeritus professor and found a measure of calm after decades marked by displacement. It was there that he developed the idea of “liquid ...

The life of Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017), a sociologist and public intellectual who personally confronted and repeatedly surmounted some of the most convulsive forces of the 20th century, including war, ...

Polish-British sociologist Zygmunt Bauman was born 100 years ago today. He is best known as the theorist of “liquid modernity,” in which social bonds decline in favor of an atomized individualism.

Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most prominent and prolific European sociologists of recent decades, has died at the age of 91. The Polish-born left-wing thinker’s works explored the fluidity of identity ...

He was born on November 19th 1925 in Poznań. When the war begun, he escaped to USRR with his parents. He joined the Communist Youth Association and started his studies at the University in Gorki. When ...

Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds by Zygmunt Bauman 176pp, Polity, £14.99 In 1957, Richard Hoggart wrote in The Uses of Literacy about the "uprooted and anxious". These were the gifted ...

Reading Zygmunt Bauman is a literary experience. His texts offer pleasure - the pleasure of the text and the pleasure of reading. The encounter with Bauman's mind causes his readers and auditors to ...

In a book published in 2000, the Polish-born sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, who has died aged 91, deployed a metaphor since taken up by the anti-globalisation movement around the world. Liquid Modernity ...