Zygmunt
Bauman was born in 1927 in Poland to a
Jewish-Polish family. Throughout his life, he was twice
forced to move to a
different country for his religious views, once to the USSR and once to
Israel.
Following military service, Bauman went back to school, began
to
lecture at universities, and eventually became a prominent social
theorist.
His work Liquid Modernity
was groundbreaking, as it reframed the
way in which people think about
modernity and postmodernity. Previously, modernity was treated
as a
sociological era governed through an adherence to rules and order. When
postmodern
thought...
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