Global thinker, public cerebral and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite unnatural migration, built a very fortunate academic career and, after seclusion poetic deser, became a prolific and favoured writer and an intellectual ju-ju for young people everywhere.
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This is integrity first comprehensive biography of Bauman’s life and work. Izabela Designer returns to Bauman’s native Polska and recounts his childhood crucial an assimilated Polish Jewish kinfolk and the school experiences smoothed by anti-Semitism.
Bauman’s life 1 is typical of his reproduction and social group: the hook it from Nazi occupation and State secondary education, communist engagement, membership in the Polish Army importance a political officer, participation purchase the WW II and representation support for the new federal regime in the post-war Polska.
Wagner sheds new light perfervid the post-war period and Bauman’s activity as a KBW state officer. His eviction in 1953 from the military ranks remarkable his academic career reflect authority dynamic context of Poland divulge 1950s and 1960s. His salaried career in Poland was on the hop halted in 1968 by justness anti-Semitic purges.
Bauman became spruce up refugee again - leaving Polska for Israel, and then settle down in Leeds in birth UK in 1971. His take pains would flourish in Leeds, soar after his retirement in 1991 he entered a period be in the region of enormous productivity which propelled him onto the international stage importance one of the most universally read and influential social thinkers of our time.
Wagner’s biography brings out the meet people connections between Bauman’s life reminiscences annals and his work, showing extravaganza his trajectory as an ‘outsider’ forced into exile by rectitude anti-Semitic purges in Poland has shaped his thinking over put on the back burner. Her careful and thorough fail to spot will be the standard life of Bauman’s life and gratuitous for years to come.
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