Zygmunt Bauman

Polish philosopher and sociologist (1925-2017) · United Kingdom · Academics · Died at 91

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A sociologist who mapped the shapeshifting anxieties of modern life - consumerism, fragmentation, the Holocaust's place in rational society - and coined "liquid modernity" to name the instability underneath.

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A life in dates

2017Died9 January 20172010“[On the Polish government in the 1950s] My analysis was that the only wish of Communism was the need to stay in power.”In their words3 November 2010The Guardian, 3 November 2010Read the whole statement

Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and HumanitiesAward2008“The average person appreciates a value only “in the course of, and through comparison” with the possessions, condition, plight or quality of other persons.”In their wordspp. 24-25 [Quote is from Max Scheler, “Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen”]Read the whole statement

“Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy - of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.”In their words[paraphrasing the view of Seneca], p. 34.Read the whole statement

“Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.”In their words[paraphrasing the view of Seneca], p. 34.Read the whole statement

2007“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 ...”In their words28 April 2007The Guardian, 28 April 2007Read the whole statement

2006The VIZE 97 PrizeAward2003“[Referring to his father] In fact, we almost lost our lives because of his honesty.”In their words5 April 2003The Guardian, 5 April 2003Read the whole statement

1998Theodor W. Adorno AwardAward1990European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social SciencesAward1925Born19 November 1925

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Zygmunt Bauman in 2005

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[On the Polish government in the 1950s] My analysis was that the only wish of Communism was the need to stay in power.
Nov 3, 2010, The Guardian, 3 November 2010, Own words
The average person appreciates a value only “in the course of, and through comparison” with the possessions, condition, plight or quality of other persons.
2008, pp. 24-25 [Quote is from Max Scheler, “Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen”], Own words
Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy - of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.
2008, [paraphrasing the view of Seneca], p. 34., Own words

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Awards

Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities2010

The VIZE 97 Prize2006

Theodor W. Adorno Award1998

European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences1990

Golden Medal for Merit to Culture

Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland

Honorary Doctor of the University of Gothenburg

Doctor Honoris Causa at the Vytautas Magnus University

Cross of Valour (1944)

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Born in Poland in 1925, Bauman was expelled during the 1968 political crisis and stripped of his citizenship. He moved to Israel, then three years later to the United Kingdom, settling in England in 1971. He studied at the London School of Economics and rose to Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, later emeritus. Across decades he wrote on modernity and the Holocaust, consumerism in postmodernity, and the concept he made his own: liquid modernity. He died in January 2017.

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United Kingdom

In common with Zygmunt

Niklas LuhmannBoth received European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences

Raymond BoudonBoth received European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences

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Alfred Marshall61.3 Joan Clarke62.4

William Tyndale60.5

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