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	Amardeep Singh: Zygmunt Bauman's doubts about 'postmodernism'
		Zygmunt Bauman is a well-known postmodernist philosopher originally from Poland, now retired from teaching and living in England.
		For Bauman, what is novel about the present moment (aka, modernity II, liquid modernity) is the sense that the old social bonds of family and community are being replaced by concepts of identity that are by their nature fluid and flexible.
		Bauman mentions the transition from a patriarchal society ordered by marriage to one where the idea of cohabitation is increasingly the norm.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/06/zygmunt-baumans-doubts-about.html (1394 words)

	Zygmunt Bauman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born to non-practicing Jewish parents in Poznan, Poland, in 1925, Bauman escaped into the Soviet zone of occupation, after Poland was invaded by Nazi-German troops in 1939 at the beginning of World War II, and later served in a Soviet-controlled Polish military unit.
		Bauman, who had lost his chair at the University of Warsaw, was one of them.
		Bauman was awarded the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences in 1992 and the Theodor W. Adorno Award of the city of Frankfurt in 1998.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zygmunt_Bauman (650 words)

	About Zygmunt Bauman
		Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw and has written some of the more influential modern books on sociology.
		Baumans thinking is mainly influenced by what he refers to as the big triad of influences.
		Bauman was born in Poznan, Poland in 1925.
	www.socialwork2003.dk /the_seminar/zygmunt_bauman.htm (270 words)

	Theory, Culture & Society - Abstracts: 15(1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Bauman has argued for an emancipatory sociology which takes full account of what ought and ought not to be, what human beings hope for and fear, and the need to give people intellectual tools to make use of their freedom.
		Bauman has confronted these challenges in the last decade by focusing on the evils of modern bureaucracy as epitomized by the Holocaust, the inescapability of each individual's responsibility for his or her own moral choices, and the potential for an open and self-critical dialogue between sociologists and their fellow citizens.
		Bauman thus poses fundamental challenges to contemporary social theory and provides an original and provocative postmodern version of the sociological imagination, developing sketches of the fundamental social and cultural changes of our time, and the ways that theory and politics must be changed to creatively map and democratically respond to these questions.
	tcs.ntu.ac.uk /tcs/abstracts/15(1).html (1181 words)

	Univerzita Karlova - Zygmunt Bauman
		Zygmunt Bauman's most significant academic contributions may be found in his analysis of the so-called ambivalence of modernity, in his exposition of the Holocaust as the tragic outcome of modernizing developmental tendencies, and in his consistent ability to connect every central contemporary issue to the question of moral responsibility.
		Zygmunt Bauman však není jeho pasivním svědkem či nezúčastněným kronikářem, je jeho aktivním účastníkem a spolutvůrcem.
		Bauman je právem pokládán za tvůrce osobitého sociologického vyjadřovacího stylu: poučen světovou literaturou (antickou, renesanční, kritickým realismem, utopickými teoriemi všech věků, Franzem Kafkou, Robertem Musilem, Fjodorem Dostojevským, ale i Jaroslavem Haškem a Milanem Kunderou) píše stylem, který je na pomezí akademického sociologického vyjadřování a sociologické eseje.
	www.cuni.cz /UK-1137.html (1285 words)

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		Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most articulate and theoretically sophisticated interpreters of modern - that is, postmodern - life.
		Bauman's stance is that of an interpreter of modern life, not an intellectual seeking to legislate or prescribe.
		Bauman has analysed specifically postmodern forms of violence - arising from the 'privatisation, deregulation and de-centralization of identity problem' - and is an acute critic of what he terms 'neo-tribal' tendencies in contemporary society.
	www.tasc.ac.uk /depart/media/staff/ls/Modules/Theory/Bauman.htm (674 words)

	The trouble with being human these days: Identity by Zygmunt Bauman
		Indeed, Bauman points to a more profound transformation of how we understand what it means to be human in the absence of transcendent ideologies (traditional or otherwise) such as have characterised modernity until recently.
		What Bauman means is not simply that the object of one's affections is vulnerable, and therefore a liability, but that in modernity the object of one's affections is also a subject.
		Bauman rightly warns against attempts to seek refuge in the identities of the past, but in his lament at the passing of lasting values, he perhaps underestimates the possibilities for self-assured human beings unencumbered by the past, and brave enough to face the future.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2004-02/identity.htm (2164 words)

	Society Under Siege
		Bauman’s method here is, rather, the tried and tested social theorist technique of ‘cut and paste’ synthesis, offering new jargon for empirical observations that others have made out of systematic research.
		Were Bauman actually to talk to someone, he would quickly find that the langauge of analysis he uses is incomprehensible to such actors, whose own interpretative lifeworlds are thus routinely violated by the all-knowing professor.
		Bauman’s tone is, in contrast, ponderous and gloomy: a dismal commentary that leads to the apparently inexorable message, that a lifetime’s social science only leads to a loss of faith in any kind of scientific method.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /soc/faculty/favell/bauman2.htm (935 words)

	MODERNITY AND THE HOLOCAUST
		Zygmunt Bauman explores the silences found in debates about the Holocaust, and asks what the historical facts of the Holocaust tell us about the hidden capacities of present-day life.
		Bauman's provocative interpretation counters the tendency to reduce the Holocaust to an episode in Jewish history, or to one that cannot be repeated in the West precisely because of the progressive triumph of modern civilization.
		Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds.
	www.cornellpress.cornell.edu /cup_detail.taf?ti_id=3664 (436 words)

	Zygmunt Bauman 'Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World' (Polity 2001) - A Review
		Bauman accepts all of this and in a nutshell his argument is that we as individuals should be both with the Other and for the Other.
		Bauman (1998) argued that we should see the work ethic for what it is, as something that generates a moral economy filled with concentrated and unchallenged discrimination.
		Bauman fails to take into account the ability of people to take responsibility for their own lives and their own actions and at the same time undermines the assumptions his own work since Postmodern Ethics (1993).
	shaunbest.tripod.com /id5.html (959 words)

	Zygmunt Bauman's article, "Nature and Culture"
		Bauman writes, "An artificial order is successfully established once what used to be improbable has been transformed into the necessary or inevitable" (146).
		Bauman writes, "it is the opposition between signs which is meaningful, not a single sign taken apart" (154) and "[t]here is neither a causal link nor a similarity between the signs [or signifier, for those who have done some literary theory] and what they stand for [or signified]" (155).
		Bauman writes that signs are always arbitrary (156) but that to those of us who have learned the cultural code very well, "people who can move with facility and without error through the world shaped by a given cultural code" (156-157), signs "do not seem to be arbitrary at all" (157).
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /polisci/pcurrah/ps785/baumanquestions.htm (503 words)

	New Statesman - NS Profile - Zygmunt Bauman
		Bauman was born into a poor Jewish family in Poland in 1925, and fled with them to the Soviet Union at the outbreak of the Second World War.
		Bauman was a creature of his experience, and his experience did not apply in his adopted country.
		"Zygmunt is a central and east European high-culture man appalled at the waste and frivolity of modern life and at the casual violence done to people through indifference to their plight," explains Varcoe.
	www.newstatesman.com /200601160019 (2212 words)

	Zygmunt Bauman: globalisation, politics and Europe Ian Varcoe - openDemocracy
		Bauman is their guide in the process of self-directed analysis and freely-undertaken action which recognises the moral claims of others.
		Zygmunt Bauman is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Leeds, England and at the University of Warsaw, Poland.
		Bauman is a declared European (on 19 March 2007 he delivered the opening lecture - entitled Making the Planet Hospitable to Europe" - in the Festival of Europe, a London event designed as an intellectual and cultural counterpoint to the EU's fiftieth anniversary celebrations).
	www.opendemocracy.net /globalization-vision_reflections/zygmunt_Bauman_4488.jsp (1595 words)

	Polish culture: Zygmunt Bauman
		Bauman belongs to the generation that faced the task of rebuilding the splendid traditions of Polish learning after the war.
		In March, 1968, Zygmunt Bauman was professor of sociology at the University of Warsaw and Chairman of the General Sociology Department.
		Bauman lectured at the universities in Tel Aviv and Haifa in 1969-1971.
	www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/os_bauman_zygmunt (355 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Literature
		Zygmunt Bauman is flawlessly incisive and deeply insightful while critically analysing the present scenario.
		Bauman’s framework is cast in the matrix of consumption in modern capitalist society that treats man as an animal with unlimited greed.
		Zygmunt Bauman’s slim volume is an important treatise on freedom inspite of its limitations.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030608/spectrum/book9.htm (656 words)

	Sociology and Social Policy Staff
		Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, having served as Professor of Sociology and, at various times, Head of Department at Leeds from 1972 until his retirement in 1990.
		Zygmunt Bauman is known throughout the world for works such as Legislators and Interpreters (1987), Modernity and the Holocaust (1989), Modernity and Ambivalence (1991) and Postmodern Ethics (1993).
		Zygmunt Bauman was awarded the Amalfi European Prize in 1990 and the Adorno Prize in 1998.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /sociology/people/bauman.htm (463 words)

	Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Bauman is concerned to show generally how the content of what it means to think of ourselves as free gets fixed by actual social conditions and, specifically, what 'freedom' actually means in the consumer-oriented culture of today.
		Freedom is a concept central to many of the social sciences, and this book, as a substantial contribution to the theory of contemporary society, will be of interest to teachers and students of a wide range of disciplines.
		Zygmunt Bauman studied at the London School of Economics and at the University of Warsaw, where he graduated.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/B/bauman_freedom.html (206 words)

	Amazon.com: Globalization: Books: Zygmunt Bauman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Bauman shows brilliantly the nature of globalization and in particular portrays well how globalization is not a forces that anyone is driving, but is a force that is driving us with no one at the wheel.
		Bauman's thesis is that the twin siblings of globalization are opulence and mobility at the top (the 'tourists') and alienation and despair at the bottom ('the vagabonds')of the social milieu.
		Bauman views the increased use of criminal incarceration and the conservative appeal to "public" law and order as an outgrowth of this spatial dichotomy, and the increase in urban criminal activity as a symptom of this new polarization.
	www.amazon.com /Globalization-Zygmunt-Bauman/dp/023111429X (2268 words)

	reVIEW --<brigham
		For Zygmunt Bauman, the term "globalization" is extravagantly misleading.
		Bauman is careful to distinguish contemporary globalization from historically similar situations in the past.
		Few are likely to be as disgusted with their environment as Bauman's thwarted locals, who seem to live in an eternal twilight of Trailways bus stations.
	www.altx.com /ebr/reviews/rev11/r11brig.htm (930 words)

	Amazon.fr : Conversations With Zygmunt Bauman: Livres en anglais: Zygmunt Bauman,Keith Tester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman is a book which will offer fresh insight into Bauman's work for those who are familiar with it, and provide an engaging and helpful entry point for those who are new to it.
		Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw and Keith Tester is Professor of Social Theory, University of Portsmouth --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
		ZYGMUNT BAUMAN You may say that from early childhood on I was shuttled from one pair of rails to another, each one presumably going somewhere, but each pointing in a different direction. Lire la première page
	www.amazon.fr /Conversations-Zygmunt-Bauman/dp/0745626653 (533 words)

	Professor with a past \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Bauman has two books being published in the UK at the moment, and it seems a good idea to ask for his side of the story.
		Bauman's particular achievement has been to mount a sustained critique of totalitarianism while at the same time, like some of the thinkers he admires, such as Richard Rorty and Richard Sennett, retaining an essentially socialist belief in the ethical necessity of equality and justice.
		Bauman soon quit the secret service, and as for the Communist party, "gradually, like so many others in my position, I came to the conclusion that there was a yawning gap between the official word and the practice...
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,2067522,00.html (1268 words)

	HERO - Higher Education & Research Opportunities in the UK: World acclaimed sociologist to give open lecture at the ...
		Described variously as one of the twentieth century's great social theorists and the world's foremost sociologist of postmodernity, Zygmunt Bauman has developed a powerful and distinctive analysis of the human condition, analysing the moral dilemmas, emotional torments, social pressures and political choices that people face in modern society and in the future.
		Zygmunt Bauman was born in 1925 in Poznan, Poland.
		Bauman was awarded the Amalfi European Prize in 1990 and the Adorno Prize in 1998.
	www.hero.ac.uk /sites/hero/media_relations/9633.cfm (370 words)

	Passion and pessimism \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Bauman argues that to blame Germany effectively exonerates everyone else, whereas the ideas of eugenics were adopted and received scientific credibility in many countries including the US and Scandinavia.
		Bauman was not tempted to pursue the prestigious posts at British universities such as the LSE or Oxbridge.
		Varcoe believes Bauman never moved on partly because of the "terrible trauma of exile" in his 40s and partly because "he was pleased to be left alone, he had peace and quiet and a predictable environment".
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,929598,00.html (3724 words)

	Publications from Uppsala University : 4773 - Negativ socialisation
		According to Bauman, the social construction of the stranger cannot be compared with the asymmetrical relation between an in-group and an out-group.
		Since there is no room for the stranger in an orderly world she has to be dealt with in a way that keeps the world free from incongruity.
		Since Bauman considers the moral consequence of cultural classification, his work is also relevant for the question of living with the stranger.
	publications.uu.se /abstract.xsql?dbid=4773 (349 words)

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