Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017)

Sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman coined the term “liquid modernity” to describe the state of constant change and mobility he saw in modern relationships, economics, and identities. Bauman’s work touches many spheres: ethics, the Holocaust, globalization, politics, religion, consumerism, love, and how societies and cultures develop. Bauman fled Poland in the spring of 1968 due to an anti-Semitic purge and subsequently taught at the University of Leeds for decades. He was Professor Emeritus of Sociology.

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Selected English titles:

1972: Between Class and Elite. The Evolution of the British Labour Movement. A Sociological Study. Manchester: Manchester University Press ISBN 0-7190-0502-7 (Polish original 1960)

1973: Culture as Praxis. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-7619-5989-0

1976: Socialism: The Active Utopia. New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers. ISBN 0-8419-0240-2

1976: Towards a Critical Sociology: An Essay on Common-Sense and Emancipation. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-7100-8306-8

1978: Hermeneutics and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-132531-5

1982: Memories of Class: The Pre-History and After-Life of Class. London/Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-7100-9196-6

c. 1985 Stalin and the Peasant Revolution: A Case Study in the Dialectics of Master and Slave. Leeds: University of Leeds Department of Sociology. ISBN 0-907427-18-9

1987: Legislators and Interpreters: On Modernity, Post-Modernity, Intellectuals. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-2104-7

1988: Freedom. Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 0-335-15592-8

1989: Modernity and the Holocaust. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 1989. ISBN 0-8014-2397-X

1990: Paradoxes of Assimilation. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.

1990: Thinking Sociologically. An Introduction for Everyone. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-16361-1

1991: Modernity and Ambivalence. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-2603-0

1992: Intimations of Postmodernity. London, New York: Routhledge. ISBN 0-415-06750-2

1992: Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-1016-1

1993: Postmodern Ethics. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-18693-X

1995: Life in Fragments. Essays in Postmodern Morality. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19267-0^[50]

1996: Alone Again – Ethics After Certainty. London: Demos. ISBN 1-898309-40-X

1997: Postmodernity and its Discontents. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0-7456-1791-3

1998: Work, Consumerism and the New Poor. Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 0-335-20155-5

1998: Globalization: The Human Consequences. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-7456-2012-4

1999: In Search of Politics. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-2172-4

2000: Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity ISBN 0-7456-2409-X

2000 (Peter Beilharz ed.): The Bauman Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 0-631-21492-5)

2001: Community. Seeking Safety in an Insecure World. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-2634-3

2001: The Individualized Society. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-2506-1

2001 (with Keith Tester): Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-2664-5

2001 (with Tim May): Thinking Sociologically, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 0-631-21929-3

2002: Society Under Siege. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-2984-9

2003: Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds, Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-2489-8

2003: City of Fears, City of Hopes. London: Goldsmiths College. ISBN 1-904158-37-4

2004: Wasted Lives. Modernity and its Outcasts. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-3164-9

2004: Europe: An Unfinished Adventure. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-3403-6

2004: Identity: Conversations with Benedetto Vecchi. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-3308-0

2005: Liquid Life. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-3514-8

2006: Liquid Fear. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-3680-2

2006: Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-3987-9

2007: Consuming Life. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-4002-8

2008: Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-02780-9

2008: The Art of Life. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-4326-4

2009: Living on Borrowed Time: Conversations with Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-0-7456-4738-8

2010: 44 Letters from the Liquid Modern World. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-0-7456-5056-2

2011: Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-0-7456-5294-8

2011: Culture in a Liquid Modern World. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-0-7456-5355-6

2012: This is Not a Diary. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-0-7456-5570-3

2012: (with David Lyon) Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-0-7456-6282-4

2013 (with Leonidas Donskis): Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-0-7456-6274-9

2013 (with Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester): What use is sociology? Conversations with Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-0-7456-7124-6

2013: Does the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All? Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-0-7456-7109-3

2014: (with Carlo Bordoni) State of Crisis. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-0-7456-8095-8

2015: (with Rein Raud) Practices of Selfhood. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-0-7456-9017-9

2015: (with Irena Bauman, Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, and Monika Kostera) Management in a Liquid Modern World. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-1-5095-0222-6

2015: (with Stanisław Obirek) Of God and Man, Cambridge: Polity Press.ISBN 978-0-7456-9568-6.

2015: (with Stanisław Obirek) On the World and Ourselves, Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-0-7456-8711-7.

2016: (with Leonidas Donskis) Liquid Evil. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-1-5095-0812-9

2016: (with Ezio Mauro) Babel. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-1-5095-0760-3

2016: Strangers at Our Door. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-1-5095-1217-1

2017: Retrotopia. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-1-5095-1531-8

2017: A Chronicle of Crisis: 2011–2016. Social Europe Editions. ISBN 1-9997151-0-1

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