My Life in Fragments

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5095-5130-9
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today. His own life was shaped by the great social forces that scarred the second half of the twentieth century – war, communism, antisemitism, forced migration. His work bears the traces of an outsider who knew all too well the enormous impact that social and political forces can have on personal lives.

Bauman never wrote a full biography, but he wrote extended letters to his daughters in which he recounted the details of his life – his childhood and schooling; his experiences during the war and its aftermath; his forced emigration from Poland in 1968 and his subsequent life in exile, first in Israel and then in the UK, where he eventually settled at the University of Leeds. This book makes available for the first time these fragments of a life recounted, woven into a compelling autobiographical narrative that is laced with the broader reflections of a master thinker on some of the great issues of our time: identity, antisemitism and totalitarianism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bauman, Zygmunt

Wagner, Izabela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Notes

1 The Story of Just Another Life?

3 January 1997

4 January

5 January

6 January

9 January

11 January

12 January

16 January

28 January

30 January

31 January

7 February

Notes

2 Where I Came From

Notes

3 The Fate of a Refugee and Soldier

Notes

4 Maturation

Notes

5 Who Am I?

Notes

6 Before Dusk Falls

Notes

7 Looking Back – for the Last Time

Notes

Appendix: Source Material

Über Autor(innen)

Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) was Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and the author of many influential works, including Modernity and the Holocaust, Liquid Modernity, Strangers at Our Door and Retrotopia.

Izabela Wagner is Professor of Sociology at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw and the author of Bauman: A Biography.