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 wspolczesnego kapitalizmu [The Party Systems of Modern Capitalism]. Warsaw: Ksiazka i Wiedza.
- 1962: Spoleczenstwo, w ktorym zyjemy. [The Society We Live In.] Warsaw: Ksiazka i Wiedza.
- 1964: Zarys marksistowskiej teorii spoleczenstwa. [Outline of the Marxist Theory of Society. Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.
- 1965: Wizje ludzkiego swiata. Studia nad spoleczna geneza i funkcja socjologii. [Visions of a Human World. Studies on the social genesis and the function of sociology. Warsaw: Ksiazka i Wiedza.
- 1972: Between Class and Elite. The Evolution of the British Labour Movement. A Sociological Study. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (Polish original 1960)
- 1973: Culture as Praxis. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- 1976: Socialism: The Active Utopia. New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers.
- 1976: Towards a Critical Sociology: An Essay on Common-Sense and Emancipation. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- 1978: Hermeneutics and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding. London: Hutchinson.
- 1982: Memories of Class: The Pre-history and After-life of Class. London/Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- 1987: Legislators and interpreters - On Modernity, Post-Modernity, Intellectuals. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
- 1988: Freedom. Philadelphia: Open University Press.
- 1989: Modernity and The Holocaust. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press 1989.
- 1990: Paradoxes of Assimilation. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
- 1990: Thinking Sociologically. An introduction for Everyone. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell.
- 1991: Modernity and Ambivalence. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
- 1992: Intimations of Postmodernity. London, New York: Routhledge.
- 1992: Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
- 1993: Postmodern Ethics. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-18693-X
- 1995: Life in Fragments. Essays in Postmodern Morality. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell.
- 1996: Alone Again - Ethics After Certainty. London: Demos. ISBN 1-898-30940-X
- 1997: Postmodernity and its discontents. New York: New York University Press.
- 1998: Work, consumerism and the new poor. Philadelphia: Open University Press.
- 1998: Globalization: The Human Consequences. New York: Columbia University Press.
- 1999: In Search of Politics. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- 2000: Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- 2001: Community. Seeking Safety in an Insecure World. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- 2001: The Individualized Society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- 2002: Society Under Siege. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- 2003: Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds, Cambridge: Polity Press.
- 2004: Wasted Lives. Modernity and its Outcasts. Cambridge: Polity Press.
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