Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Polish-British sociologist who developed the concept of 'liquid modernity'
1925, Poznań, Poland — 2017, Leeds, England
Poland · United Kingdom
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Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish-born British sociologist and philosopher, born to a Jewish family in Poznań, who developed the influential concept of 'liquid modernity' to describe the fluid, precarious character of contemporary life, and wrote landmark studies on the Holocaust and modernity. After being purged in Poland's 1968 antisemitic campaign, he settled at the University of Leeds.
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Polish-British sociologist who developed the concept of 'liquid modernity'
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