Vivir en tiempos turbulentos

In February 2014 and April 2016, the great Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman held a series of revealing dialogues with the Swiss essayist and journalist Peter Haffner. Collected in this volume, these conversations are a privileged way of accessing the main themes of his thought, as well as giving us very interesting personal and unpublished aspects of this influential intellectual of our time. Throughout these pages, Zygmunt Bauman addresses burning issues such as "liquid" modernity and its consequences, the growing precariousness of human life, hatred of the different and the creation of scapegoats as a permanent threat in the societies of our time. . He also tells us about his ordeal as a soldier in World War II or recalls the repression that, as a Jew, he suffered in his own country. And he does not give up giving us juicy opinions about sex, love and the construction of one's own destiny in a world that is crumbling; ideas that he expresses in this highly enjoyable work, fundamental to understanding his thoughts and the whole of his career, written with enviable lucidity and a contagious sense of humor.