Biography of Zygmunt Bauman

The study of modern morals

November 19, 1925 Zygmunt Bauman was born in Poznan (Poland) on November 19, 1925 by non-practicing Jewish parents. After the invasion of German troops in 1939, when he was nineteen, at the beginning of the second world war, he took refuge in the Soviet occupation zone, being then a Soviet military unit service. After the war he began studying Sociology at the University of Warsaw, where they taught Stanislaw Ossowsky and Julian Hochfeld. During a stay at the London School of Economics, preparing his major dissertation on British socialism was published in 1959. Bauman begins to collaborate with several magazines including "Socjologia na co Dzień" (Sociology of everyday life, of 1964), capable of reaching a large audience. Initially his thinking is close to the official Marxist doctrine; then comes close to Antonio Gramsci and Georg Simmel. An anti-Semitic purge in Poland, in March of the year 1968 pushes many of Polish Jews survived to immigrate abroad; These include many intellectuals who had lost the grace of the Communist Government; Zygmunt Bauman is among them: in exile must give up his Professorship at the University of Warsaw. At first he emigrated to Israel where he teaches at the University of Tel Aviv; subsequently accepts a Chair in Sociology at the University of Leeds (England), where at times he served as head of Department. Since then, almost all of his papers will be in English. Bauman focused his research on production issues of social stratification and the labor movement, before rising to more general areas such as the nature of modernity. The most prolific period of his career after retiring from the Chair of Leeds, which takes place in 1990, when you gain some estimate outside the circle of social scientists work with a book about the alleged connection between the ideology of modernity and the Holocaust. Her most recent publications focus on the transition from modernity to Postmodernity, and ethical issues involved in this development. His critique of the commodification of existences and planetary approval becomes ruthless especially in "In globalization" (1998), "waste" (2004) and "Homo consumens. The restless consumer swarm and the misery of the excluded "(2007).
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