Author: Zygmunt Bauman

In our individualized society we are all artists of life – whether we know it or not, will it or not and like it or not, by decree of society if no...

In our individualized society we are all artists of life – whether we know it or not, will it or not and like it or not, by decree of society if no...

In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structur...

More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique among the continents, has developed in more tha...

Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'taboo' subject in modern societies: death and dyin...

'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface m...

Society is under siege – under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow...

Society is under siege – under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow...

Unde malum from where does evil come? That is the question that has plagued humankind ever since Eve, seduced by the serpent, tempted Adam to taste...

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas More, ...

Unde malum from where does evil come? That is the question that has plagued humankind ever since Eve, seduced by the serpent, tempted Adam to taste...

The term ‘collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interven...

We are living in an open sea, caught up in a continuous wave, with no fixed point and no instrument to measure distance and the direction of travel...

We are living in an open sea, caught up in a continuous wave, with no fixed point and no instrument to measure distance and the direction of travel...

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we fol...

The revised edition of Subject to Ourselves, a lively and provocative book that was a leader on its topic in England, uses psychoanalytic theory as...

Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations eme...

This is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 in the form of dated entries, they are not a personal ...

This is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 in the form of dated entries, they are not a personal ...

The revised edition of Subject to Ourselves, a lively and provocative book that was a leader on its topic in England, uses psychoanalytic theory as...

In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structur...

More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique among the continents, has developed in more tha...

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of...

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the leading figures in contemporary social thought. His work ranges across issues of ethics, culture and politics. It neve...