The Polish-British philosopher and sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has died. The Polish-born left-wing thinker, died on Monday at the age of 91 in his home in Leeds, England, informed the philosophy Professor Anna Zejdler-Janiszewska. She was informed about the death of Baumans of his partner.
Bauman was regarded as one of the most prominent and prolific European sociologists of the last decades. In his works, he went to the identity of the river in the modern world, the Holocaust, and globalization. As a strong moral voice, he addressed the poor and the Dispossessed in a world which is rotated by the globalisation on the head. Baumans focus was on how people could make ethical decisions a dignified life. As a critic of consumer society, he became one of the most cited sociologists of the present and had an influence on socio-political debates.
In the center of his Work is the confrontation with the ambiguity and the question of how the modern state deals with ambivalence. Thus, Bauman became one of the pioneers of the post-modern.
Baumann wrote more than 50 books. The best known is the 1989 released dialectics of order. Modernity and the Holocaust. In it, Bauman deviates from the point of view of many other Intellectuals, the cruelty of the Holocaust as a collapse of the Modern saw. Bauman, the mass extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany is viewed rather as the result of modernity, such as industrialization. “It was the rational world of modern civilisation that made the Holocaust conceivable,” he wrote.
In the 90s coined Bauman, the concept of volatile Modern. Thus the contemporary world is described, which is so fast that it deprived individuals of their roots and frame of reference. In works such as Volatile times: living in uncertainty and Volatile Modern he went after the Fragility of human Connections and the uncertainties of a constantly changing world.
In Poland, Bauman was regarded in some circles as controversial. Some nationalists regarded him as an enemy of the state. In 2013, disrupted by the extreme Right for a public debate with Bauman in Wroclaw, in the case of “shame!” and “Down with communism!” shouted. Since then, Bauman had stopped to visit his home country.
From the officer to the sociologists
Bauman was born on 19. November 1925 in Poznań, Poland, born. His Jewish family fled in 1939 to the beginning of the Second world war and the German occupation of Poland, in the Soviet Union. There visited Bauman a boarding school and the Communist youth organization Komsomol.
In the years from 1944 to 1953 Bauman, first as a soldier and political Commissar of the Soviet Red army, and later as an intelligence officer in Communist post-war Poland, where he, after the end of the war remained. There, he quickly rose from a political officer, a Major, and eventually became chief of the Department for Propaganda and Agitation. After the death of Stalin, the apparatus is caused, in part, and Bauman, a study of the philosophy and sociology in Warsaw began, where he taught from 1954. Here, he received his doctorate in 1956 and received his habilitation in 1960.
From 1964 to 1968, Bauman was head of the sociological Seminar of the University of Warsaw. During this time, he published dozens of books, in which he grappled with the works of Lenin and the party systems of modern capitalism.
exchange to Leeds
After that he was made in 1968 for student protests in Communist Poland, dismissed him from the University. Bauman went on for a professorship to Israel, where he criticized at the University of Haifa again and again, the situation of the Palestinians, and so little popular. In 1971, he followed the reputation of the University in the Northern English city of Leeds, where he taught until his retirement in 1991. In 2010 was founded the Bauman Institute. He was also a visiting Professor at Berkeley, Yale, Canberra, St. John’s and Copenhagen.
in 2007, the now world well-known sociologist for his work the secret service in the headlines. At the time, Bauman admitted that his Agent had been, and regretted it as an error.
Bauman 61 years, was married to writer Janina Lewinson, who in 2009 died. From the marriage three daughters: Anna, Irena and Lydia. After the death of his wife he lived with the sociologist Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania. It is Bierut, the daughter of the former Polish President and party leaders of the Stalinist post-war period, Bolesław.
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