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Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Leeds, England (where he taught from 1972-90) and at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His many books include Modernity and Ambivalence (Polity, 1993), Liquid Modernity (Polity, 2000 ), Modernity and the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2001), and Liquid Life (Polity, 2005)

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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.