Bauman, Zygmunt
Bauman, Zygmunt (1925– )Born in 1925 in Poland, of Jewish descent, Bauman was forced by the rise of Nazism to leave his homeland in 1939. He was educated in Soviet Russia, fought with the Red Army against the Germans during the Second World War and emigrated to the West in 1968 after being sacked from the University of Warsaw for criticism of the regime. He became Professor of Sociology at Leeds University in 1971 and is now an Emeritus Professor both at Leeds and, since the collapse of communism, at the University of Warsaw. A prolific writer, Bauman has been one of the most influential and interesting contributors to an understanding of the nature of contemporary society and the transition from modernity to postmodernity.
In a complex, globalized world of radical cultural pluralization Bauman champions an interpretative approach to the social sciences against the judging, legislative imperative of...
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