History and Politics
Bauman, Zygmunt / Davis, Mark / Palmer, Jack / Brzezinski, Dariusz / Campbell, Thomas P / Bartoszynska, Katarzyna A victim of the Nazis, then the Communists. Twice a refugee, yet always remaining a committed socialist. In countless ways, Zygmunt Bauman lived the political upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He was an actor within them. Bauman's own lived history informed his politics, which found expression in varying degrees in his sociology, as he wrote extensively on socialism, democracy, bureaucracy, morality, Europe, and the Jewish...