Zygmunt Bauman 1925 – 2017

Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish-British sociologist and social philosopher and one of the most widely read social theorists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Driven from Poland by the antisemitic campaign of 1968, he settled at the University of Leeds, where he produced an extraordinary body of work on modernity, ethics, and the conditions of contemporary social life. Modernity and the Holocaust argued that the Holocaust was not a deviation from but a possibility of modernity, while Liquid Modernity and the long sequence of liquid books that followed it described the precarious, ever-changing forms of life characteristic of the early twenty-first century.