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Łukasz Gałecki

Lukasz Galecki is a journalist with the Warsaw weekly newspaper Polityka .

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The unwinnable war: an interview with Zygmunt Bauman

The Polish-born sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s subtle and quietly insistent dissections of the human experience of modernity and globalisation have gradually won him recognition as a foremost scholar of the age – including in his home country. The Polish journalist Lukasz Galecki talks to Bauman at his home in Leeds, England.