Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017), world-renowned global thinker, public intellectual, and theorist of "liquid modernity," was an academic who, even after being forced to emigrate from his country, would become a prolific and popular author of books and an intellectual talisman for young people everywhere. He was one of those few scholars who, already white-haired and having entered his eighties, knew how to touch the feelings of youth like few others. This is the first comprehensive biography of Bauman's life and work. The biography brings to light the complex connections between Bauman's life experiences and his work, and shows us how his trajectory as a person "strange" to his environment of origin and, later, also to those he received, forced into exile by the anti-Semitic purges in Poland, has conditioned his thinking over time. Without a doubt, this careful and complete analysis of Bauman's life and work will be the reference biography of the Polish thinker for many years.