Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman
Born	(1925-11-19)November 19, 1925 Poznań, Poland
Died	9 January 2017(2017-01-09) (aged 91) Leeds, England, UK
Alma mater	University of Warsaw London School of Economics
Era	20th / 21st-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Continental philosophy · Western Marxism
Main interests	Ethics · Political philosophy · Sociology · Postmodernity · Postmodern art
Notable ideas	Modernity's struggle with ambiguity, resulting in the Holocaust · postmodern ethics · critique of "liquid" modernity
Influences Karl Marx · Georg Simmel · Antonio Gramsci · Hannah Arendt · Theodor Adorno · Stanisław Ossowski · Jacques Derrida · Alain Touraine · Emmanuel Levinas
Influenced Peter Beilharz · Keith Tester

Zygmunt Bauman (19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017^[1]) was a Polish-British sociologist and philosopher. He had been living in England since 1971.

1. ↑ "Polish-Born Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman Dies in UK at Age 91 - NYTimes.com". Archived from the original on 2017-01-10. Retrieved 2021-01-01.