Zygmunt Bauman

The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity. The them…

Society is under siege – under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to…

More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique among the continents, has developed in more than t…

It is commonly assumed that the best way to help the poor out of their misery is to allow the rich to get richer, that if the rich pay less taxes then…

Widely acclaimed insight on the human condition, updated to view modern issues through a sociological lens Now in its third edition, Thinking Sociolog…

In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place of …

The production of ‘human waste’ – or more precisely, wasted lives, the ‘superfluous’ populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts – is an inev…

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas More, wri…

‘Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willi…

Zygmunt Bauman tritt mit seinen Beobachtungen und Analysen zur Zukunft Europas den Beweis an, dass Europa durchaus die Möglichkeiten hat, die gewaltig…

Contemporary understanding of human subjectivity has come a long way since the Cartesian 'thinking thing' or Freud's view of the self struggling with …

Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings co…

We are spurred into action by our troubles and fears; but all too often our action fails to address the true causes of our worries. When trying to mak…

In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating ‘the people' by bringing…

Unde malum from where does evil come? That is the question that has plagued humankind ever since Eve, seduced by the serpent, tempted Adam to taste th…

This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, ‘liquid modern’ times – the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the f…

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing – the fashions we follow…

The term ‘collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventio…

Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity – the Holoc…

With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals be…

Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'taboo' subject in modern societies: death and dying. …

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of im…

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-ba…

In this lucid, stimulating and original book, Zygmunt Bauman and Tim May explore the underlying assumptions and tacit expectations which structure our…

What is the role of education in a world where we no longer have a clear vision of the future and where the idea of a single, universal model of human…

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the leading figures in contemporary social thought. His work ranges across issues of ethics, culture and politics. It never f…

'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern socie…

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing – the fashions we follow…

In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and soc…

In our individualized society we are all artists of life – whether we know it or not, will it or not and like it or not, by decree of society if not b…

This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we grapple with the insecurity and uncertainty of liqu…

The term ‘collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventio…

Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyd…

Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer be…

'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the…

This is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 in the form of dated entries, they are not a personal refle…

Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerge…