Zygmunt Bauman

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UTOYA ISLAND, NORWAY - JULY 24: Flowers rest near Utoya Island following Friday's twin extremist attacks, on July 24, 2011 in Norway. A man, named as Anders Behring Breivik, 32, has been arrested and is being held as the primary suspect following the bomb blast at a government building in Oslo and a shooting masscare on nearby Utoya island that killed at least 93 people in total. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

At the time of his death, in 2017, the Polish sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman was working on a short book with the Italian journalist Thomas Leoncini. What follows is an edited excerpt of their conversation drawn from Born Liquid, his last published work; the phrase refers to a generation born after the 1980s into a society in a state of constant flux.

Thomas Leoncini: Have you ever been bullied?

Zygmunt Bauman: Yes, I was. Permanently, daily. Throughout my schooling in Poznan, Poland, until my escape from my hometown at the outbreak of war. In the company of the other two Jewish boys among the pupils.…  Seguir leyendo »

“Cat Eating a Bird,” 1939, by Pablo Picasso Credit 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Scala/Art Resource

This is the third in a series of dialogues with philosophers and critical theorists on the question of violence. This conversation is with Zygmunt Bauman, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Leeds, Britain. His latest book, “Strangers at the Door” is published with Polity Press.

Brad Evans: For over a decade you have focused on the desperate plight of refugees. Attention has been particularly drawn in your work to the many indignities and insecurities the refugee continuously faces on a daily basis. You have also stressed how the problem is not entirely new, and must be understood in a broader historical context.…  Seguir leyendo »